Idaho Code § 56-1401: Short title — Legislative intent.

(1) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Idaho Hospital Assessment Act."

(2) It is the intent of the legislature to encourage the maximization of financial resources eligible and available for medicaid services by establishing a fund within the Idaho department of health and welfare to receive private hospital assessments to use in securing federal matching funds under federally prescribed upper payment limit and disproportionate share hospital programs available through the state medicaid plan.