Purpose


The amendments to Rule 59G-6.045, F.A.C., incorporate by reference 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) effective July 1, 2011. The Plan effective July 1, 2011, includes revisions made in accordance with a request from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Senate Bill 2000, 2011-12 General Appropriations Act, Specific Appropriation 207, and House Bill 2144, Section 5 (23)(a). These revisions will be related to the following areas: 1. Section I.N: Providers are subject to sanctions pursuant to Section 409.913(15)(c), F.S., for late cost reports. The amount of the sanctions can be found in Rule 59G-9.070, F.A.C. A cost report is late if it is not received by AHCA, Bureau of Medicaid Program Analysis, on the first cost report acceptance cut-off date after the cost report due date. 2. The agency shall establish rates at a level that ensures no increase in statewide expenditures resulting from a change in unit costs effective July 1, 2011. Reimbursement rates shall be as provided in the General Appropriations Act. 3. $27,480,638 is provided to buy back intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled rate reductions, effective on or after October 1, 2008. 4. $6,297,463 is provided for modifying the reimbursement for intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled, effective October 1, 2011.