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line 1 (B) Health care services or items provided to a financially line 2 qualified patient through other nonprofit or public outpatient line 3 clinics, hospitals, or health care organizations with no expectation line 4 of payment. line 5 (C) Community benefits, provided that the provision, funding, line 6 or financial support of those benefits is demonstrated to reduce line 7 community health care costs. For purposes of this subparagraph, line 8 “community benefits” means any of the following: vaccination line 9 programs and services for low-income families, chronic illness line 10 prevention programs and services, nursing and caregiver training line 11 provided without assessment of fees or payment of tuition, line 12 home-based health care programs for low-income families, or line 13 community-based mental health and outreach and assessment line 14 programs for low-income families. For purposes of this line 15 subparagraph, “low-income families” means families or individuals line 16 with income less than or equal to 350 percent of the federal poverty line 17 level. line 18 (2) Charity care does not include any of the following: line 19 (A) Uncollected fees or accounts written off as bad debt. line 20 (B) Care provided to patients for which a public program or line 21 public or private grant funds pay for any of the charges for the line 22 care. line 23 (C) Contractual adjustments in the provision of health care line 24 services below the amount identified as gross charges or line 25 “chargemaster” rates by the health care provider. line 26 (D) Any amount over 125 percent of the Medicare rate for the line 27 health care services or items provided on an inpatient or outpatient line 28 basis. line 29 (E) Any amount over 125 percent of the Medicare rate for line 30 providing, funding, or otherwise financially supporting health care line 31 services or items with no expectation of payment provided to line 32 financially qualified patients through other nonprofit or public line 33 outpatient clinics, hospitals, or health care organizations. line 34 (F) The cost to a nonprofit hospital of paying a tax or other line 35 governmental assessment. line 36 (c) “Federal poverty level” means the poverty guidelines updated line 37 periodically in the Federal Register by the United States line 38 Department of Health and Human Services under authority of line 39 subsection (2) of Section 9902 of Title 42 of the United States line 40 Code. 96 — 6 —AB 975