Section 405 IAC 1-17-7 - Request for rate review; budget component; occupancy level assumptions; effect of inflation assumptionsAuthority: IC 12-15-1-10; IC 12-15-1-15; IC 12-15-21-2
Affected: IC 12-13-7-3; IC 12-15
Sec. 7.
Under this rate setting system, emphasis is placed on proper planning, budgeting, and cost control by the provider. To establish consistency in the submission and review of forecasted costs, the following apply:
(1) Each interim rate review request shall include a budget financial report. If a budget financial report is not submitted, the interim rate review will not result in an increase in Medicaid rates but may result in a rate decrease based on historical or annual financial reports submitted.(2) All budget financial reports shall be submitted using forms prescribed by the office. All forecasted data and required attachments shall be completed to provide full financial disclosure and will include as a minimum the following: (C) Ownership and related party information.(D) Statement of all expenses and all income.(E) Detail of fixed assets and patient related interest bearing debt.(F) Schedule of Medicaid and private pay charges; charges shall be the lowest usual and customary charge on the rate effective date of the rate review.(G) Certification by the provider that forecasted data has been prepared in good faith, with appropriate care by qualified personnel, using appropriate accounting principles and assumptions, and that the process to develop the forecasted data uses the best information that is reasonably available and is consistent with the plans of the provider. The certification shall state that all expenses not related to patient care have been clearly identified or removed.(H) Certification by the preparer, if the preparer is different from the provider, that the forecasted data were compiled from all information provided to the preparer and that the preparer has read the forecasted data with its summaries of significant assumptions and accounting policies and has considered them to be not obviously inappropriate.(3) The provider shall adjust patient census data based on the highest of the following:(A) Historical patient days for the most recent historical period unless the provider can justify the use of a lower figure for the patient days.(B) Forecasted patient days for the twelve (12) month budget period.(4) The provider and the office shall recognize and adjust forecasted data accordingly for the inflationary or deflationary effect on historical data for the period between the midpoint of the historical or annual financial report time period and the midpoint of the budget financial report. Forecasted data may be adjusted based upon reasonably anticipated rates of inflation.Office of the Secretary of Family and Social Services; 405 IAC 1-17-7; filed Sep 1, 1998, 3:25 p.m.: 22 IR 86; readopted filed Jun 27, 2001, 9:40 a.m.: 24 IR 3822; filed Aug 29, 2003, 10:45 a.m.: 27 IR 97; readopted filed Sep 19, 2007, 12:16 p.m.: 20071010-IR-405070311RFA; readopted filed Oct 28, 2013, 3:18 p.m.: 20131127-IR-405130241RFAFiled 8/1/2016, 3:44 p.m.: 20160831-IR-405150418FRAReadopted filed 7/28/2022, 2:21 p.m.: 20220824-IR-405220205RFAReadopted filed 5/30/2023, 11:54 a.m.: 20230628-IR-405230292RFA