2018 Idaho Statutes
Title 56 - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND WELFARE
Chapter 15 - IDAHO SKILLED NURSING FACILITY ASSESSMENT ACT
Section 56-1505 - NURSING FACILITY ASSESSMENTS.

Universal Citation: ID Code § 56-1505 (2018)
56-1505. NURSING FACILITY ASSESSMENTS. (1) Nursing facilities shall pay the nursing facility assessment to the fund in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, with the exception of state and county-owned facilities, which are not required to contribute.
(2) The aggregated amount of assessments for all nursing facilities, during a fiscal year, shall be an amount not exceeding the maximum percentage allowed under federal law of the total aggregate net patient service revenue of assessed facilities from each provider’s prior fiscal year. The department shall determine the assessment rate prospectively for the applicable fiscal year on a per-resident-day basis, exclusive of medicare part A resident days. The per-resident-day assessment rate shall be uniform. The department shall notify nursing facilities of the assessment rate applicable to the fiscal year by August 30 of that fiscal year.
(3) The department shall collect, and each nursing facility shall pay, the nursing facility assessment on an annual basis subject to the terms of this subsection. The nursing facility assessment shall be due annually with the initial payment due within sixty (60) days after the state plan has been approved by CMS. Subsequent annual payments are due no later than thirty (30) days after receipt of the department invoice.
(4) Nursing facilities may increase their charges to other payers to incorporate the assessment but shall not create a separate line item charge on the bill reflecting the assessment.

History:
[56-1505, added 2011, ch. 164, sec. 23, p. 478.]

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