Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 24, June 15, 2024
(a) This chapter applies to county nursing facilities.(b) This chapter sets forth conditions of participation for county nursing facilities, identifies the costs incurred by county nursing facilities to provide nursing facility services that will be recognized as allowable MA Program expenditures and specifies the methodology by which rates will be set and payments made to county nursing facilities for services provided to MA residents.(c) Payment for nursing facility services provided by county nursing facilities is made subject to this chapter and Chapter 1101 (relating to general provisions).(d) Extensions of time will be as follows: (1) The time limits established by this chapter for the filing of a cost report, resident assessment data and picture date reporting, or other document or submission to the Department cannot be extended, except as provided in this section.(2) Extensions of time in addition to the time otherwise prescribed by this chapter may be permitted only upon a showing of fraud, breakdown in the Department's administrative process or an intervening natural disaster making timely compliance impossible or unsafe.(3) This subsection supersedes 1 Pa. Code § 31.15 (relating to extensions of time). This section cited in 55 Pa. Code § 1189.71 (relating to cost reporting).