Due to the high ratio of unqualified uncompensated-care expenses to qualified uncompensated-care expenses, the department of human services is hereby authorized and directed to pay by September 1, 2010, from revenues derived from taxes imposed in accordance with § 44-17-1: (1) Acute-care hospitals in Washington County the amount of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to South County Hospital, and seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) to The Westerly Hospital; (2) Any acute-care hospital in Kent County the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000); and (3) Miriam Hospital the amount of one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000). The department of human services is authorized and directed to pay four million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($4,750,000) during state fiscal year 2011 to the following hospitals: one million seven hundred seventy-eight thousand eight hundred forty-three dollars ($1,778,843) to Kent Hospital; six hundred and forty-two thousand three hundred forty dollars ($642,340) to Saint Joseph's Hospital; one million one hundred thirty-one thousand, nine hundred twenty-nine dollars ($1,131,929) to Miriam Hospital; four hundred thirty-eight thousand and four hundred eighty-two dollars ($438,482) to South County Hospital; two hundred ninety seven thousand eight hundred and six dollars ($297,806) to Westerly Hospital; one hundred thirty-three thousand and six hundred seventy-two dollars ($133,672) to Newport Hospital; one hundred seventy thousand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars ($170,964) to Butler Hospital; and one hundred fifty-five thousand and nine hundred sixty-three dollars ($155,963) to Bradley Hospital of Rhode Island. The department of human services is authorized to pay five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to South County Hospital and five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to Westerly Hospital in state fiscal year 2012.
History of Section.
P.L. 2009, ch. 68, art. 19, § 2; P.L. 2010, ch. 23, art. 20, § 2; P.L. 2011, ch. 151, art. 18, § 3.