(a) A provider shall submit documentation of its costs of providing services; and the department shall use such documentation, to the extent necessary, to support the department's claim for Federal funding and for State reimbursement for allowable direct and indirect costs incurred in the provision of out-of-home placement services. The department may include components of the recommendations of the rate methodology task force established under this section as part of the provider documentation to ensure Federal reimbursement.

(b) The department shall convene a task force to include representatives from public and private children and youth social service agencies and other appropriate stakeholders as determined by the secretary or deputy secretary for the Office of Children, Youth and Families.

(c) The task force established under subsection (b) shall develop recommendations for a methodology to determine reimbursement for actual and projected costs, which are reasonable and allowable, for the purchase of services from providers and for other purchased services. The task force shall provide written recommendations for the purchase of services from providers to the General Assembly no later than April 30, 2014. The task force shall provide written recommendations for other purchased services no later than December 31, 2014. The task force shall be convened within sixty days after the effective date of this section.

(d) As used in this section, the term “provider” means an entity licensed or certified to provide twenty-four-hour out-of-home community-based or institutional care and supervision of a child, with the care and supervision being paid for or provided by a county using Federal or State funds disbursed under this article.