Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 40, § 1183.3. Definitions

(1) “Cost related to patient care” means all reasonable costs of outpatient and health services related care of Medicaid beneficiaries determined in accordance with Medicare regulations governing cost-based reimbursement promulgated by the Health Care Financing Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services, establishing the method or methods to be utilized and the items to be included in determining such costs related to patient care.

(2) “Department” means the Louisiana Department of Health or its successor in the role of designated state agency under Title XIX of the Social Security Act or any successor Act including but not limited to block grants for medical care of the poor.

(3) “FQHC” means a facility which is engaged in furnishing primary health services to outpatients by physicians, physician assistants or nurse practitioners, including but not limited to health services related to family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology and such services and supplies incident thereto. Such facility shall serve a medically underserved population, meaning the population of an urban or rural area designated by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services as an area with a shortage of personal health services or a population group designated by the secretary as having a shortage of such services, such as migratory and seasonal agricultural workers, the homeless, residents of public housing, or students and other family members of students of a particular school or schools. Such a facility shall have been designated as a federally qualified health center by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and shall be receiving grants or loans as may be granted by the secretary under 42 U.S.C. 254b.

(4) “Net uncompensated costs” means the costs related to patient care incurred during a provider's fiscal year of furnishing outpatient services, net of the cost of treating Medicare patients, Medicaid payments for inpatient and outpatient services, excluding disproportionate share payments, costs associated with patients who have insurance for services provided, and payments received from uninsured patients.

(5) “State plan for medical assistance” means the plan promulgated by the department in accordance with its role as a designated state agency under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, or its successor plan including but not limited to block grants for medical care to the poor.