(1) "Department" means the Department of Health Care Finance.
(2) "Hospital" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 44-501(a)(1), but excludes any hospital operated by the federal government.
(3) "Hospital system" means any group of hospitals licensed separately, but operated, owned, or maintained by a common entity.
(4) "Medicaid" means the medical assistance programs authorized by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, approved July 30, 1965 (79 Stat. 343; 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq.), and by § 1-307.02, and administered by the Department.
(5)(A) "Outpatient gross patient revenue" means the amount that is reported in column 2 of line 28 of Worksheet G-2 of the hospital's most recently available Hospital and Hospital Health Care Complex Cost Report ("Form CMS 2552-10").
(B) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, for a hospital that has not yet filed its first Form CMS-2552-10, the term "outpatient gross patient revenue" shall mean a dollar value determined by the Department based on projected utilization volume and projected utilization migration from other area hospitals that approximates the hospital's expected outpatient gross patient revenue.
