Payments to hospitals
Payment of health services charges to hospitals
35.—(1) If the Department receives a payment of health services charges under section 23(2), it shall pay the amount received to the responsible body of the health services hospital at which the treatment, in respect of which the payment was made, was given.
(2) If a payment received under section 23(2) relates to treatment at more than one health services hospital, the Department shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), divide the payment among the responsible bodies of the hospitals concerned in such manner as it considers appropriate.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to any amount received by the Department under section 23(2) which it is required to repay in accordance with regulations under section 32(2).
(4) Regulations under this section may—
(a)make provision for the manner in which and intervals at which any payments due under this section are to be made;
(b)make provision for cases where the responsible body of the health services hospital concerned has ceased to exist (including provision modifying this Part).