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Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-5-1503

Annual coverage assessment on covered hospitals

Acts 2018, ch. 874, § 1; 2020, ch. 643, § 5.

(1) An ambulance provider shall pay an assessment to the bureau: In accordance with this part;

(2) In the amount designated in § 71-5-1504;

(3) Quarterly, on a day determined by the bureau; and

(4) No more than thirty (30) business days after the day on which the bureau issues the ambulance provider notice of the assessment.

(5) The bureau shall: Determine the standards and procedures used to implement and enforce this part;

(6) Collect the assessment described in subsection (a); and

(7) Transfer assessment proceeds to the state treasurer for deposit into the ambulance service assessment revenue fund created in § 71-5-1508.

(8) An ambulance provider shall not increase charges or add a surcharge to ground transports based on, or as a result of, the assessment described in subsection (a).

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.