Section R9-28-703. Nursing Facility Supplemental Payments

A.      Nursing Facility Supplemental Payments

1.        Using Medicaid resident bed day information from the most recent and complete twelve months of adjudicated claims and encounter data, for every combination of con- tractor and every facility eligible for a supplemental pay- ment, the Administration shall determine annually a ratio equal to the number of bed days for the facility paid by each contractor divided by the total number of bed days paid to all facilities by all contractors and the Administra- tion.

2.        Using the same information as used in (A)(1), for every facility eligible for a supplemental payment, the Admin- istration shall determine annually a ratio equal to the number of bed days for the facility paid by the Adminis- tration divided by the total number of bed days paid to all facilities by all contractors and the Administration.

3.        Quarterly, each contractor shall make payments to each facility in an amount equal to 98% of the amounts identi- fied as Nursing Facility Enhanced Payments in the 820 transaction sent from AHCCCS to the contractor for the quarter multiplied by the percentage determined in sub- section (A)(1) applicable to the contractor and to each facility.

4.        Quarterly, the Administration shall make payments to each facility in an amount equal to 99% of the amounts collected during the preceding quarter under R9-28-702, less amounts collected and used to fund the Nursing Facility Enhanced Payments included in the capitation paid to contractors and the corresponding federal finan- cial participation, multiplied by the percentage deter- mined in subsection (A)(2) applicable to the Administration and to each facility. The Administration shall make the supplemental payments to the nursing facilities within 20 calendar days of the determination of the quarterly supplemental payment.

5.        Neither the Administration nor its contractors shall be required to make quarterly payments to facilities other- wise required by subsections (A)(3) or (A)(4) until the amount available in the nursing facility assessment fund established by A.R.S. § 36-2999.53, plus the correspond- ing federal financial participation, is equal to or greater than 101% of the amount necessary to make such pay- ments in full.

6.        Contractors shall not be required to make quarterly pay- ments to a facility otherwise required by subsection (A)(3) until the Administration has made a retroactive adjustment to the capitation rates paid to contractors to correct the Nursing Facility Enhanced Payments based on actual member months for the specified quarter.

B.       Each contractor must pay each facility the amount computed within 20 calendar days of receiving the Nursing Facility Enhanced Payment from the Administration. The contractors must confirm each payment and payment date to the Adminis- tration within 20 calendar days from receipt of the funds.

C.  After each assessment year, the Administration shall reconcile the payments made by contractors under subsections (A)(3) and (B) to the portion of the annual collections under R9-28- 702 attributable to Medicaid resident bed days paid for by con- tractors for the same year, less one percent, plus available fed- eral financial participation. The proportion of each nursing

facility’s Medicaid resident bed days as described in subsec- tion (A)(1) shall be used to calculate the reconciliation amounts. Contractors shall make additional payments to or recoup payments from nursing facilities based on the reconcil- iation in compliance with the requirements of subsection (B).

D.      General requirements for all payments.

1.        A facility must be open on the date the supplemental pay- ment is made in order to receive a payment. In the event a nursing facility closes during the assessment year, the nursing facility shall cease to be eligible for supplemental payments.

2.        In the event a nursing facility begins operation during the assessment year, that facility shall not receive a supple- mental payment until such time as the facility has claims and encounter data that falls within the collection period for the payment calculation.

3.        In the event a nursing facility has a change of ownership, payments shall be made to the owner of the facility as of the date of the supplemental payment.

4.        Subsection (E)(3) shall not be interpreted to prohibit the current and prior owner from agreeing to a transfer of the payment from the current owner to the prior owner.

E.       The Arizona Veterans’ Homes are not eligible for supplemen- tal payments.

Historical Note

Adopted effective October 1, 1988, filed September 1,

1988 (Supp. 88-3). Amended effective November 5, 1993

(Supp. 93-4). Amended effective September 22, 1997 (Supp. 97-3). Amended by final rulemaking at 8 A.A.R. 3340, effective July 15, 2002 (Supp. 02-3). Section repealed by final rulemaking at 13 A.A.R. 458, effective April 7, 2007 (Supp. 07-1). New Section made by final rulemaking at 19 A.A.R. 137, effective January 8, 2013 (Supp. 13-1). Amended by final rulemaking at 19 A.A.R.

4168, effective February 1, 2014 (Supp. 13-4). Amended by final rulemaking at 20 A.A.R. 1989, effective Septem- ber 6, 2014 (Supp. 14-3).