Indiana Code Title 27. Insurance § 27-1-47.5-7

Sec. 7. (a) The department shall contract with a third party to make the calculations required by this section.  The third party contractor shall make the calculations described in subsection (b) concerning an Indiana nonprofit hospital system's prices from the commercially insured market, categorized by:

expressed as a percentage of how much Medicare would have paid for the same services.

(b) Before November 1, 2024, and before November 1 of each subsequent year, the department's third party contractor shall compare:

calculated separately and combined in total as a percentage of Medicare for all patient care services provided to the commercially insured market.  The third party contractor shall make these calculations for each Indiana nonprofit hospital within an Indiana nonprofit hospital system and for the Indiana nonprofit hospital system, expressed as a percentage of how much Medicare would have paid for the same services in comparison to what two hundred eighty-five percent (285%) of Medicare would have been for the same services.

(c) The department and the department's third party contractor shall review the data and resources submitted concerning prices in Indiana specific to each Indiana nonprofit hospital system.