12 Va. Admin. Code § 30-80-200
Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 9, December 16, 2024
Section 12VAC30-80-200 - Prospective reimbursement for rehabilitation agencies or comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilitiesA. Rehabilitation agencies or comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities. 1. Effective for dates of service on and after July 1, 2009, rehabilitation agencies or comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities, excluding those operated by community services boards or state agencies, shall be reimbursed a prospective rate equal to the lesser of the agency's fee schedule amount or billed charges per procedure. The agency shall develop a statewide fee schedule based on Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes to reimburse providers what the agency estimates they would have been paid in FY 2010 minus $371,800.2. Effective for dates of service on and after October 1, 2009, rehabilitation agencies or comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities, excluding those operated by state agencies shall be reimbursed a prospective rate equal to the lesser of the agency's fee schedule amount or billed charges per procedure. The agency shall develop a statewide fee schedule based on CPT codes to reimburse providers what the agency estimates they would have been paid in FY 2010 minus $371,800.B. Reimbursement for rehabilitation agencies subject to the new fee schedule methodology. 1. Payments for the fiscal year ending or in progress on June 30, 2009, shall be settled for private rehabilitation agencies based on the previous prospective rate methodology and the ceilings in effect for that fiscal year as of June 30, 2009.2. Payments for the fiscal year ending or in progress on September 30, 2009, shall be settled for community services boards based on the previous prospective rate methodology and the ceilings in effect for that fiscal year as of September 30, 2009.C. Beginning with state fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2010, rates shall be adjusted annually for inflation using the Virginia-specific nursing home input price index contracted for by the agency. The agency shall use the percent moving average for the quarter ending at the midpoint of the rate year from the most recently available index prior to the beginning of the rate year.D. Reimbursement for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language therapy services shall not be provided for any sums that the rehabilitation provider collects, or is entitled to collect, from the nursing facility or any other available source, and provided further, that this subsection shall in no way diminish any obligation of the nursing facility to DMAS to provide its residents such services, as set forth in any applicable provider agreement.E. Effective July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2016, there will be no inflation adjustment for outpatient rehabilitation facilities. Effective July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018, outpatient rehabilitation facilities will receive a rate adjustment equal to 50% of inflation as calculated in subsection C of this section.12 Va. Admin. Code § 30-80-200
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 20, Issue 19, eff. July 1, 2004; amended, Virginia Register Volume 26, Issue 11 and Volume 26, Issue 12, eff. April 5, 2010; Volume 26, Issue 19, eff. July 1, 2010; Volume 29, Issue 23, eff. August 14, 2013; Amended, Virginia Register Volume 31, Issue 15, eff. 4/22/2015; Amended, Virginia Register Volume 34, Issue 11, eff. 2/21/2018.Statutory Authority: § 32.1-325 of the Code of Virginia; 42 USC § 1396 et seq.