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(xi) "Hospital services" means inpatient, outpatient and other services provided by a private hospital or by practitioners employed by, under contract with or in affiliation with a hospital-affiliated professional service provider group. Hospital services for purposes of this act include services provided in a psychiatric residential treatment facility owned, operated by or affiliated with a private hospital.

42-9-103. Private hospital assessment account.

(a) The private hospital assessment account is created.

(b) The state treasurer shall invest amounts deposited within the account in accordance with law and all investment earnings shall be credited back to the account. Funds in the account are continuously appropriated to the department for the purposes specified in this section.

(c) The account shall consist of:

(i) Amounts collected or received by the department from private hospital assessments under this chapter;

(ii) All federal matching funds received by the department as a result of expenditures made by the department pursuant to this chapter.

(d) The account shall be used exclusively for the following purposes:

(i) To pay administrative expenses incurred by the department or its agent in performing the activities authorized by this chapter, provided that these expenses shall not exceed a total of three percent (3%) of the aggregate assessment funds collected in the fiscal year;

(ii) To secure federal matching funds available through the state medicaid plan as approved pursuant to W.S. 42-9-108, which shall be used to make quarterly adjustment payments as provided by this chapter;

(iii) To repay to the federal government any excess payments received or made to private hospitals if the state plan, after approval by the centers for medicare and medicaid services, is subsequently disapproved for any reason and after the state has exhausted all appeals. Private hospitals shall