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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.“Department” means the department of health and human services.
2.“Direct care worker” means an employee of a nursing facility who holds a nursing
assistant certification, is employed for the purpose of nursing assistance, and provides direct
care to residents, regardless of the employee’s job title.
3.“Gross revenue” means all revenue reported by the nursing facility for patient care,
room, board and services, but does not include contractual adjustments, bad debt, Medicare
revenue, or revenue derived from sources other than nursing facility operations including but
not limited to nonoperating revenue and other operating revenue.
4.“Medically indigent individual” means an individual eligible for coverage under the
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Department” means the department of health and human services.
2. “Direct care worker” means an employee of a nursing facility who holds a nursing
assistant certification, is employed for the purpose of nursing assistance, and provides direct
care to residents, regardless of the employee’s job title.
3. “Gross revenue” means all revenue reported by the nursing facility for patient care,
room, board and services, but does not include contractual adjustments, bad debt, Medicare
revenue, or revenue derived from sources other than nursing facility operations including but
not limited to nonoperating revenue and other operating revenue.
4. “Medically indigent individual” means an individual eligible for coverage under the
medical assistance program who is a resident of a Medicaid-certified nursing facility.
5. “Nonoperating revenue” means income from activities not relating directly to the
day-to-day operations of a nursing facility such as gains on the disposal of a facility’s assets,
dividends, and interest from security investments, gifts, grants, and endowments.
6. “Nursing facility” means a licensed nursing facility as defined in section 135C.1 that
is a freestanding facility or a nursing facility operated by a hospital licensed pursuant to
chapter 135B, but does not include a distinct-part skilled nursing unit or a swing-bed unit
operated by a hospital, or a nursing facility owned by the state or federal government or other
governmental unit.
7. “Other operating revenue” means income from nonpatient care services to patients and
from sales to and activities for persons other than patients which may include but are not
limited to such activities as providing personal laundry service for patients, providing meals
to persons other than patients, gift shop sales, or vending machine commissions.
8. “Patient day” means a calendar day of care provided to an individual resident of a
nursing facility that is not reimbursed under Medicare, including the date of admission but
not including the date of discharge, unless the dates of admission and discharge occur on the
same day, in which case the resulting number of patient days is one patient day.
9. “Uniform tax requirement waiver” means a waiver of the uniform tax requirement for
permissible health care-related taxes as provided in 42 C.F.R. §433.68(e)(2)(i) and (ii).