Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 65-03-1 - General1.1. Scope - This procedural rule sets the procedure to be used to ascertain appropriate projections of gross revenues for hospitals, to set the amount of net revenue over expenditures that is appropriate for the effective operation of each hospital and to set rate schedules for each hospital. The procedural rule also sets forth time periods for the submission of applications by hospitals pertaining to rate schedules, increases therein, and for subsequent actions on the applications including hearings in contested cases. This rule also provides for emergency rate increases and rate increases at or below the rate of inflation for the hospital industry. This procedural rule supplements the Health Care Cost Review Authority Act, West Virginia Code, section one, article twenty-nine-b, chapter sixteen et seq., and the West Virginia Administrative Procedures Act, West Virginia Code, section one, article one, chapter twenty-nine-a et seq., and must be read in conjunction with those Acts.1.2. Authority - West Virginia Code § 16-29B-8, §§ 29A-2-9, 15 and § 29B-1-3.1.3. Filing Date - August 17, 1987.1.4. Effective Date - September 17, 1987.1.5. Repeal of Former Rule - This procedural rule repeals West Virginia Procedural Rule "Health Care Cost Review Authority, Chapter 16-29B, Series III, Procedural Rules For The Projecting Of Gross Revenues For Hospitals, Setting The Amount Of Net Revenue Over Expenditures For Hospitals And Setting Schedules Of Rates For Hospitals (1984)", filed August 13, 1984.