RULE NO: RULE TITLE
59G-6.045: Payment Methodology for Services in Facilities Not Publicly Owned and Publicly Operated (Facilities Formerly Known as ICF/DD Facilities)
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The purpose and effect of the proposed rule development is to incorporate changes to the Florida Title XIX Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF) for the Mentally Retarded and the Developmentally Disabled Facilities not Publicly Owned and not Publicly Operated Reimbursement Plan (the Plan) in accordance with the 2008-09 General Appropriations Act, House Bill 5001, Specific Appropriation 235 and House Bill 5085, Section 5 which amended Section 409.908, Florida Statutes.
1. Effective October 1, 2008, as a result of modifying the reimbursement for intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled, the Agency shall implement a recurring methodology in the Title XIX Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded and Developmentally Disabled for Community Owned and Operated Facilities Reimbursement Plan to achieve a $6,160,256 reduction. In establishing rates through the normal process, prior to including this reduction, if the unit cost is equal to or less than the unit cost used in establishing the budget, then no additional reduction in rates is necessary. In establishing rates through the normal process, prior to including this reduction, if the unit cost is greater than the unit cost used in establishing the budget, then rates shall be reduced by an amount required to achieve this reduction, but shall not be reduced below the unit cost used in establishing the budget.
2. The Agency shall establish rates at a level that ensures no increase in statewide expenditures resulting from a change in unit costs for two fiscal years effective July 1, 2009. Reimbursement rates for the two fiscal years shall be as provided in the General Appropriations Act.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Florida Medicaid Title XIX reimbursement rate methodology for Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF) for the Mentally Retarded and the Developmentally Disabled Facilities not publicly owned and not publicly operated reimbursement methodology.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 409.919 FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 409.908 FS.
IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
TIME AND DATE: September 10, 2008, 9:00 a.m.
PLACE: 2727 Mahan Drive, Conference Room D, Building 3, Tallahassee, Florida 32308
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Edwin Stephens, Medicaid Program Analysis, Agency for Health Care Administration, 2727 Mahan Drive, Building 3, Room 2149-A, Tallahassee, Florida 32308, (850)414-2759 or stephene@ahca.myflorida.com.

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE.