No public trust hospital license or main provider location under a provider agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as provided for under 42 C.F.R., Sections 489.1 through 489.18, shall be transferred from its current address to an address greater than fifteen (15) miles away, if the public trust hospital is located in a community with a population of fewer than thirty thousand (30,000) residents, according to the latest Federal Decennial Census. If a public trust hospital facility announces a closure, before the closure of the facility, a mediator shall be appointed. The municipality beneficiary of the public trust hospital shall also appoint a mediator. The two mediators shall appoint a mutually agreed-upon third mediator. The three mediators shall agree upon a sales price for the hospital, in accordance with appropriate due diligence and financial audits received from the public trust hospital, if the hospital and the municipality cannot agree without mediation. The hospital shall be transferred to the beneficiary municipality if the beneficiary municipality is willing to pay the agreed-upon purchase price set forth by the mediators and has the appropriate staff identified to operate the hospital. In the event the public trust hospital is sold to another entity, the trustees of the hospital shall certify that they have not entered into any agreement, formal or informal, with the prospective owners of the hospital regarding any position, role, or employment for themselves or their direct relatives, and they shall also certify that they have not and will not receive any financial benefit from the prospective owners, whether in-kind or otherwise. In the event a public, third party, has been leasing the public trust hospital and operating the public trust hospital under a lease, upon termination of that lease, the hospital CMS provider number shall revert back to the public trust hospital immediately upon lease termination, in accordance with the provisions of 42 C.F.R., Section 489.18.
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