Section 129535 Of Article 3. Survey And Planning From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 107. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 3.
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. The department shall, to the extent required by federal
law, ascertain and enforce compliance with federal and state
provisions and regulations adopted pursuant to this section during
the period that an applicant who receives federal assistance remains
obligated in order to assure the provision of uncompensated services
for persons unable to pay for those services.
The department shall adopt regulations, in accordance with
applicable federal regulations and Chapter 3.5 (commencing with
Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government
Code, for administering federal requirements for uncompensated
services for persons unable to pay for those services. The
regulations shall include all of the following:
(a) Identify categories of persons eligible for uncompensated
services.
(b) Define the services that applicants may provide to meet their
obligations under this section.
(c) Require obligated facilities to submit information, data,
budgets, and reports, in a form and manner as the department may
prescribe, describing the method under which the facility elects to
establish the level at which it will provide uncompensated services.
(d) Permit department approval of requests to provide
uncompensated services at a lesser level than prescribed, based on
facility's inability to provide the prescribed level.
(e) Specify procedures for public hearings to inform the public of
levels of uncompensated services to be provided by individual
facilities or to resolve disputes and complaints relating to these
levels.
(f) Set forth procedures for publication of notice concerning
public hearings and, thereafter, for notices announcing the levels of
uncompensated services to be provided by facilities.
(g) Describe the surveillance program utilized by the department
to assure that individual facility's obligations to provide a
determined level of uncompensated services are met.