§ 3241.3. Hospital assessment--Exceptions--Fees--Promulgation of rules
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 63. Public Health and SafetyEffective: May 26, 2022
Effective: May 26, 2022
63 Okl.St.Ann. § 3241.3
§ 3241.3. Hospital assessment--Exceptions--Fees--Promulgation of rules
A. For the purpose of assuring access to quality care for Oklahoma Medicaid consumers, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, after considering input and recommendations from the Hospital Advisory Committee, shall assess hospitals licensed in Oklahoma, unless exempt under subsection B of this section, a supplemental hospital offset payment program fee.
3. A hospital for which the majority of its inpatient days are for any one of the following services, as determined by the Authority using the Inpatient Discharge Data File published by the State Department of Health, or in the case of a hospital not included in the Inpatient Discharge Data File, using substantially equivalent data provided by the hospital:
(3) the managed care provider incentive pool to support health care quality assurance and access improvement initiatives, with the pool amount determined by the representative sharing ratio of provider and hospital participation in Medicaid. Provider eligibility shall be determined by the Authority. For purposes of this division, eligible providers shall not include those employed by or contracted with, or otherwise a member of, the faculty practice plan of either:
If the nonfederal share generated by the supplemental hospital offset payment program fee is not sufficient to fully fund the disbursements described in divisions 1 through 5 of this subparagraph, the funds directed toward such disbursements shall be reduced proportionally, and
c. any remaining funds shall be deposited into the Medicaid Health Improvement Revolving Fund created in Section 23 of Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1337 of the 2nd Session of the 58th Oklahoma Legislature.1
2. The assessment rate until December 31, 2012, shall be fixed at two and one-half percent (2.5%). For the calendar year ending December 31, 2022, the assessment rate shall be fixed at three percent (3%). For the calendar year ending December 31, 2023, the assessment rate shall be fixed at three and one-half percent (3.5%). For the calendar year ending December 31, 2024 and for all subsequent calendar years, the assessment rate shall be fixed at four percent (4%).
4. If an eligible hospital's applicable Medicare Cost Report is not contained in the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Healthcare Cost Report Information System file, the eligible hospital shall submit a copy of its applicable Medicare Cost Report to the Authority in order to allow the Authority to determine the eligible hospital's net hospital patient revenue for the base year.
8. The Authority shall review which hospitals are eligible to participate in the Supplemental Hospital Offset Payment Program provided for in this subsection and which hospitals are exempted pursuant to subsection B of this section. Such review shall occur at a fixed period of time. This review and decision shall occur within twenty (20) days of the time of federal approval and annually thereafter in November of each year.
1. If an eligible hospital ceases to be an eligible hospital for any reason, the assessment for the year in which the cessation occurs shall be adjusted by multiplying the annual assessment by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the year during which the hospital is subject to the assessment and the denominator of which is 365. Immediately upon ceasing to be an eligible hospital, the hospital shall pay the assessment for the year as adjusted, to the extent not previously paid.
2. In the case of an eligible hospital that did not operate as a hospital throughout the base year, its assessment and any potential receipt of a hospital access payment will commence in accordance with rules for implementation and enforcement promulgated by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board, after consideration of the input and recommendations of the Hospital Advisory Committee.
F. 1. In the event that federal financial participation pursuant to Title XIX of the Social Security Act is not available to the Oklahoma Medicaid program for purposes of matching expenditures from the Supplemental Hospital Offset Payment Program Fund at the approved federal medical assistance percentage for the applicable year for one or more of the purposes identified in division 1, 2, or 3 of subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of subsection C of this section, the portion of the supplemental hospital offset payment program fee attributable to any such purpose for which matching expenditures are unavailable shall be null and void as of the date of the nonavailability of such federal funding through and during any period of nonavailability.
3. In the event that the supplemental hospital offset payment program fee is determined to be null and void for any of the reasons enumerated in this subsection, any supplemental hospital offset payment program fee assessed and collected for any period after such invalidation shall be returned in full within twenty (20) days by the Authority to the eligible hospital from which it was collected.
G. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board, after considering the input and recommendations of the Hospital Advisory Committee, shall promulgate rules for the implementation and enforcement of the supplemental hospital offset payment program fee. Unless otherwise provided, the rules adopted under this subsection shall not grant any exceptions to or exemptions from the hospital assessment imposed under this section.
Credits
Laws 2011, c. 228, § 3; Laws 2013, c. 132, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2016, c. 345, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2016; Laws 2019, c. 56, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2019; Laws 2021, c. 518, § 2; Laws 2022, c. 398, § 2, emerg. eff. May 26, 2022.
Footnotes
Title 56, § 1010.8A.
63 Okl. St. Ann. § 3241.3, OK ST T. 63 § 3241.3
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 29 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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