Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-702.1
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Public trust hospital address transfer limits
Official statutory text
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.
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.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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