R432-104-5. Hospital located within an Acute Care Hospital

  (1) If an LTAC is located within a licensed acute care hospital, it must:

  (a) have a separate governing body, chief executive officer, chief medical officer, and medical staff from the co-located hospital;

  (b) perform basic functions independently from the host hospital;

  (c) incur not more than 15 per cent of its total inpatient operating costs for items and services supplied by the host hospital;

  (d) admit 75 per cent of patients from other sources than the host hospital;

  (e) maintain admission and discharge records separately from those of the hospital in which it is co-located;

  (f) not commingle beds with beds in which it is located; and

  (g) be serviced by the same Medicare fiscal intermediary as the hospital of which it is a part.