048-7 Wyo. Code R. §§ 7-24 - Nursing Care Facility Assessment Act
(a) Nursing
facility adjustment payments to providers based on the upper payment limit
calculation.
(i) The Department will make
adjustment payments to nursing facilities under the provisions of the Nursing
Care Facility Assessment Act, W.S. §§
42-8-101
through 109.
(A) Adjustment payments will be
calculated prospectively on an annual basis to be effective from October 1
through September 30 of each year. The adjustments will be paid quarterly. New
providers opening during that assessment year will not be included in the
program until the next assessment year.
(B) The quarterly adjustment payments will be
due to the providers not later than thirty (30) days after the end of each
calendar quarter.
(C) Change of
ownership. If a facility changes ownership, beginning at the start of the
calendar quarter following the date of the change of ownership, the new owner
will collect the adjustment payment that was calculated using the prior owner's
data.
(D) Adjustment payments will
be calculated based on Medicaid days paid by the Wyoming Medical Assistance
Program.
(I) Wyoming Medicaid days will be
collected for the dates of service represented in cost reports ended in the
calendar year that precedes the assessment effective each October 1. The
Medicaid days will be generated by the Department from their MMIS payment
system.
(II) New facilities without
a qualifying cost report. For new facilities that opened prior to the October 1
annual calculation that do not have either a full year cost report or a
qualifying cost report, as described in Section
5(c) of this Chapter,
resident days will be determined using more current information and will be
annualized.
(E) State
operated facilities are exempt from this program.
(b) Nursing facility assessment
payable to the Department.
(i) The Department
will collect an assessment from nursing facilities under the provisions of the
Nursing Care Facility Assessment Act, W.S. §
42-8-101
through 109.
(A) Assessments will be
calculated prospectively on an annual basis to be effective from October 1
through September 30 of each year. The annual assessments will be paid
quarterly. New providers opening during that assessment year will not be
included in the program until the next assessment year.
(B) The quarterly assessments will be due to
the Department no later than forty-five (45) days after the end of each
calendar quarter.
(C) Change of
ownership. If a facility changes ownership, beginning with the quarter
following the date of the change of ownership, the new owner will assume the
payment schedule calculated using prior owner's data. If it is not clear to the
Department which owner is responsible for the assessment, the owner who
received the quarterly adjustment payment will be responsible to pay the
Department for the assessment related to that same quarter.
(D) Assessments will be calculated based on a
per-resident day basis, exclusive of Medicare resident days.
(I) Resident days will be collected from the
Wyoming Nursing Home Reimbursement System, Financial Report for Nursing Homes
(cost report) that ended in the calendar year that precedes the assessment
effective each October 1. The Department will revise its cost report form to
collect the appropriate patient day data. Until the revised cost report forms
are in use and have been filed with the Department, the Department will utilize
a provider survey to gather the necessary data.
(II) New facilities without a qualifying cost
report. If a new facility opened prior to the October 1 annual calculation that
does not have either a full year cost report or a qualifying cost report, as
described in Section
5(c) of this Chapter,
resident days will be determined using more current information and will be
annualized.
(E)
Assessment expenses shall be reported on the State of Wyoming Financial Report
for Nursing Homes annual cost report. Expenses shall be reported on schedule B
of this same cost report. For providers who do not file a Medicare cost report,
assessment expenses shall be reported on line 578 of the State of Wyoming
Financial Report for Nursing Homes annual cost report.
(F) State operated facilities are exempt from
this program.
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