RS 40:1189.7: Authorized activities concerning health care providers and public rural hospitals

A. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a public rural hospital may employ a health care provider on a part-time basis. As used in this Subsection, "part-time basis" means twenty or fewer hours of work per calendar week.

B. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a public rural hospital may lease, at fair market value, a portion or all of a facility or equipment to a health care provider employed by the hospital on a part-time basis for the provision of health care services and a health care provider employed on a part-time basis by a public rural hospital may lease, at fair market value, a portion or all of a facility or equipment to the hospital for the provision of health care services.