§ 16-28-15-8 — Distribution of revenue from fee

Indiana § 16-28-15-8

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 16: HEALTH
• Art. 28: HEALTH FACILITIES
• Ch. 15: Health Facility Quality Assessment Fee

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(a) The money collected from the quality
assessment fee during state fiscal year 2012 may be used only as
follows:
(1) Sixty-seven and one-tenth percent (67.1%) to pay the state's
share of costs for Medicaid nursing facility services provided
under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1396 et seq.).
(2) Twenty-three and eight-tenths percent (23.8%) to pay the
state's share of costs for other Medicaid services provided under
Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et
seq.).
(3) Nine and one-tenth percent (9.1%) to pay prior year state
nursing facility expenditures.
(b) The money collected from the quality assessment fee during
state fiscal year 2013 may be used only as follows:
(1) Sixty-six and five-tenths percent (66.5%) to pay the state's
share of costs for Medicaid nursing facility services provided
under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1396 et seq.).
(2) Twenty-nine and four-tenths percent (29.4%) to pay the state's
share of costs for other Medicaid services provided under Title
XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).
(3) Four and one-tenth percent (4.1%) to pay prior year state
nursing facility expenditures.
(c) The money collected from the quality assessment fee after state
fiscal year 2013 may be used only as follows:
(1) Seventy and six-tenths percent (70.6%) to pay the state's share
of the costs for Medicaid nursing facility services provided under
Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et
seq.).
(2) Twenty-nine and four-tenths percent (29.4%) to pay the state's
share of costs for other Medicaid services provided under Title
XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).
(3) The office may decrease the percentage specified in
subdivision (1) to pay state fiscal year 2011 and prior year state
nursing facility expenditures only if the amounts collected in
subsections (a)(3) and (b)(3) are insufficient to pay the
expenditures. Once the expenditures described in this subdivision
have been collected, the percentage specified in subdivision (1)
shall be restored.
(d) Any increase in reimbursement for Medicaid nursing facility
services resulting from maximizing the quality assessment rate under
section 6(b) of this chapter shall be directed exclusively to initiatives
determined by the office to promote and enhance improvements in
quality of care to nursing facility residents.
(e) The office may establish a method to allow a health facility to
enter into an agreement to pay the quality assessment fee collected
under this chapter under an installment plan.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.229-2011, SEC.162. Amended by P.L.205-2013, SEC.215.