TITLE 56

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND WELFARE

CHAPTER 1

PAYMENT FOR SKILLED AND INTERMEDIATE SERVICES

PART B

FREE-STANDING SKILLED CARE AND INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES

56-118.  Reimbursement rates. (1) The department shall implement a methodology for reviewing and determining reimbursement rates to private businesses providing developmental disability agency services, mental health services, service coordination and case management services and residential habilitation agency services by rule.

(2)  In addition to any policy or federal statutory requirements, such methodology shall incorporate, at a minimum, the actual cost of providing quality services, including personnel and total operating expenses, directly related to providing such services which shall be provided by the private business entities.

(3)  The results of this review and analysis do not guarantee a change in reimbursement rates, but shall be a fair and equitable process for establishing and reviewing such rates.

History:

[56-118, added 2005, ch. 86, sec. 1, p. 304; am. 2011, ch. 164, sec. 6, p. 467.]