Sec. 311.0455.  ANNUAL REPORT BY THE DEPARTMENT.  (a)  The department shall submit to the attorney general and comptroller not later than July 1 of each year a report listing each nonprofit hospital or hospital system that did not meet the requirements of Section 311.045 during the preceding fiscal year.
(b)  The department shall submit to the attorney general and the comptroller not later than November 1 of each year a report containing the following information for each nonprofit hospital or hospital system during the preceding fiscal year:
(1)  the amount of charity care, as defined by Section 311.031, provided;
(2)  the amount of government-sponsored indigent health care, as defined by Section 311.031, provided;
(3)  the amount of community benefits, as defined by Section 311.042, provided;
(4)  the amount of net patient revenue, as defined by Section 311.042, and the amount constituting four percent of net patient revenue;
(5)  the dollar amount of the hospital's or hospital system's charity care and community benefits requirements met;
(6)  a computation of the percentage by which the amount described by Subdivision (5) is above or below the dollar amount of the hospital's or hospital system's charity care and community benefits requirements;
(7)  the amount of tax-exempt benefits, as defined by Section 311.042, provided, if the hospital is required to report tax-exempt benefits under Section 311.045(b)(1)(A) or (b)(1)(B);  and
(8)  the amount of charity care expenses reported in the hospital's or hospital system's audited financial statement.
(c)  The department shall make the report required by Subsection (b) available to the public and shall issue a press release concerning the availability of the report.
(d)  For purposes of Subsection (b), "nonprofit hospital" includes the following if the hospital is not located in a county with a population under 50,000 where the entire county or the population of the entire county has been designated as a Health Professionals Shortage Area:
(1)  a Medicaid disproportionate share hospital;  or
(2)  a public hospital that is owned or operated by a political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state, including a hospital district or authority.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.