Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-702.1: Public trust hospital address transfer limits

No public trust hospital license or main provider location under

a provider agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

Services (CMS), as provided for under 42 C.F.R., Sections 489.1

through 489.18, shall be transferred from its current address to an

address greater than fifteen (15) miles away, if the public trust

hospital is located in a community with a population of fewer than

thirty thousand (30,000) residents, according to the latest Federal

Decennial Census. If a public trust hospital facility announces a

closure, before the closure of the facility, a mediator shall be

appointed. The municipality beneficiary of the public trust

hospital shall also appoint a mediator. The two mediators shall

appoint a mutually agreed-upon third mediator. The three mediators

shall agree upon a sales price for the hospital, in accordance with

appropriate due diligence and financial audits received from the

public trust hospital, if the hospital and the municipality cannot

agree without mediation. The hospital shall be transferred to the

beneficiary municipality if the beneficiary municipality is willing

to pay the agreed-upon purchase price set forth by the mediators and

has the appropriate staff identified to operate the hospital.

In the event the public trust hospital is sold to another

entity, the trustees of the hospital shall certify that they have

not entered into any agreement, formal or informal, with the

prospective owners of the hospital regarding any position, role, or

employment for themselves or their direct relatives, and they shall

also certify that they have not and will not receive any financial

benefit from the prospective owners, whether in-kind or otherwise.

In the event a public, third party, has been leasing the public

trust hospital and operating the public trust hospital under a

lease, upon termination of that lease, the hospital CMS provider

number shall revert back to the public trust hospital immediately

upon lease termination, in accordance with the provisions of 42

C.F.R., Section 489.18.