(a) (1) Except as provided in this section, all data and other information relating to a hospital that are used for the purposes of this article, including, without limitation, the days data source, shall continue to be used to determine the payments to that hospital, regardless of whether the hospital has undergone one or more changes of ownership. (2) All supplemental payments to a hospital under this article shall be made to the licensee of a hospital on the date the supplemental payment is made. All quality assurance fee payments under this article shall be paid by the licensee of a hospital on the date the quarterly quality assurance fee payment is due. (b) The data of separate facilities prior to a consolidation shall be aggregated for the purposes of this article if: (1) a private hospital consolidates with another private hospital, (2) the facilities operate under a consolidated hospital license, (3) data for a period prior to the consolidation is used for purposes of this article, and (4) neither hospital has had a change of ownership on or after the effective date of this article unless paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) has been satisfied by the new owner. Data of a facility that was a separately licensed hospital prior to the consolidation shall not be included in the data, including the days data source, for the purpose of determining payments to the facility or the quality assurance fees due from the facility under the article for any time period during which the facility is closed. A facility shall be deemed to be closed for purposes of this subdivision on the first day of any period during which the facility has no general acute, psychiatric, or rehabilitation inpatients for at least 30 consecutive days. A facility that has been deemed to be closed under this subdivision shall no longer be deemed to be closed on the first subsequent day on which it has general acute, psychiatric, or rehabilitation inpatients. (c) The payments to a hospital under this article shall not be made, and the quality assurance fees shall not be due, for any period during which the hospital is closed. A hospital shall be deemed to be closed on the first day of any period during which the hospital has no general acute, psychiatric, or rehabilitation inpatients for at least 30 consecutive days. A hospital that has been deemed to be closed under this subdivision shall no longer be deemed to be closed on the first subsequent day on which it has general acute, psychiatric, or rehabilitation inpatients. Payments under this article to a hospital and installment payments of the aggregate quality assurance fee due from a hospital that is closed during any portion of a subject fiscal quarter shall be reduced by applying a fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which shall be the number of days during the applicable subject fiscal quarter that the hospital is closed during the subject fiscal year and the denominator of which shall be the number of days in the subject fiscal quarter. (d) The following provisions shall apply only for purposes of this article, and shall have no application outside of this article nor shall they affect the assumption of any outstanding monetary obligation to the Medi-Cal program: (1) The director shall develop and describe in provider bulletins and on the departmentâs Internet Web site a process by which the new operator of a hospital that has a days data source in whole or in part from a previous operator may enter into an agreement with the department to confirm that it is financially responsible or to become financially responsible to the department for the outstanding monetary obligation to the Medi-Cal program of the previous operator in order to avoid being classified as a new hospital for purposes of this article. This process shall be available for changes of ownership that occur before, on, or after January 1, 2014, but only in regard to payments under this article and otherwise shall have no r
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