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Notice: 14670782

Notice of Development of Rulemaking

Department:

AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION

Division:

Medicaid

Chapter:

REIMBURSEMENT TO PROVIDERS

Overview

RULE:

59G-6.010

Payment Methodology for Nursing Home Services

PURPOSE:

The purpose of the amendment to Rule 59G-6.010 is to incorporate by reference Florida Title XIX Long-term Care Reimbursement Plan, Version XLII, effective July 1, 2014, (the Plan). The amendment will update the Plan to reflect changes to the payment methodology for nursing home services as authorized in House Bill 5001, 2014-15 General Appropriations Act, Specific Appropriation 241, as follows:
1.	$1,115,714,105 is provided to buy back nursing facility rate reductions effective on or after January 1, 2008.
2.	A transition to a single rate-setting period effective September 1 of each year. Rates shall be established on July 1, 2014 for a six-month rate period, January 1, 2015 for an eight-month rate period, and annually on September 1 thereafter.
3.	Editorial and technical changes to remove obsolete language and reorganize existing language.

SUBJECT:

Payment Methodology for Nursing Home Services.
An additional area to be addressed during the workshop will be the potential regulatory impact the amendment to Rule 59G-6.010 will have as provided for under sections 120.54 and 120.541, F.S.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

409.919 F.S.

LAW:

409.908, 409.9082, 409.913, F.S.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

6/10/2014 Vol. 40/112

RELATED STATUTES
AND LAWS:

409.919 F.S., 409.908, 409.9082, 409.913, F.S.

OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE:

Joint Administrative Procedures Committee
Florida Administrative Law Central Online Network (F.A.L.C.O.N.)

RELATED COURT CASES:

Division of Administrative Hearings

FEDERAL eRULEMAKING
WEB PORTAL:

Regulations.gov

HOW TO LINK TO
THIS NOTICE:

http://flrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?id=59G-6.010&PDate=6/10/2014&Section=1

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