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Regular Session, 2011
SENATE BILL NO. 98
BY SENATOR MCPHERSON
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
HOSPITALS. Provides for the definition of major teaching hospital for the purposes of
hospital prospective reimbursement methodology. (8/15/11)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 40:1300.291(B)(3), relative to the hospital prospective payment methodology;2
to provide for the criteria that must be met in order to be deemed a major teaching3
hospital; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 40:1300.291(B)(3) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง1300.291. Hospital prospective reimbursement methodology7
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B. A major teaching hospital shall meet one of the following criteria:9
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(3) Maintain an intern and full-time equivalency of at least eighteen filled11
positions with an approved residency program in family practice located more12
than one hundred miles from the medical school accredited by the Liaison13
Committee on Medical Education, and that develops a public-private14
partnership with Huey P. Long Medical Center to share family practice15
residents and Tulane University medical residents assigned to the Louisiana16
State University Health Sciences Center and Huey P. Long Medical Center.17 SB NO. 98
SLS 11RS-347 ORIGINAL
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Greg Waddell.
DIGEST
Present law provides that in order to be designated a major teaching hospital for purposes
of the hospital prospective reimbursement methodology, a hospital shall meet one of the
following criteria:
(1) Be a major participant in at least four approved medical residency programs of which
at least two of the programs shall be in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology,
pediatrics, family practice, emergency medicine, or psychiatry.
(2) Maintain an intern and resident full-time equivalency of at least 20 filled positions
with an approved medical residency program in family practice located more than
150 miles from the medical school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical
Education.
Proposed law retains present law and adds a third criteria of maintaining an intern and full-
time equivalency of at least 18 filled positions with an approved residency program in family
practice located more than 100 miles from the medical school accredited by the Liaison
Committee on Medical Education, and that develops a public-private partnership with Huey
P. Long Medical Center to share family practice residents and Tulane University medical
residents assigned to the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and Huey P.
Long Medical Center.
Effective August 15, 2011.
(Adds R.S. 40:1300.291(B)(3))