On April 14, 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Health levied a $5.5 million surcharge for fiscal year 2013 on hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and birth centers for funding the MCare professional liability debts and expenses.
On April 14, 2013, the Pennsylvania Department of Health levied a $5.5 million surcharge for fiscal year 2013 on hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and birth centers for funding the MCare professional liability debts and expenses. MCare authorized the Department of Health to assess the surcharge and allocate that to hospitals, ASCs and birth centers. DOH has determined that it needs $5.5 million for fiscal year 2013 and has determined that an equitable methodology for allotting that surcharge would be to use total operating rooms and procedure rooms for ASCs and birth centers and licensed beds for hospitals, which they refer to as the “units.”
The total number of units (i.e., beds, operating rooms and procedure rooms) in Pennsylvania is 44,742, which yields a 2013 surcharge of $122.87 per unit.
