Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 65-12-7 - Rate Review Act7.1. Nothing in this interpretive rule is intended to change the policy of the board as expressed in the "Procedural Rule For Requests For Hospital Rate Changes," 65 CSR 3 (1987), that presently excludes free-standing acute-care psychiatric hospitals from the requirements of the rate review and rate setting programs of W. Va. Code '16-29B-1 et seq. If that policy is subsequently changed in a later phase of the rate review and rate setting programs, rules incorporating those changes will then be issued.7.2. It is the present position of the board that it will not attempt to apply the provisions of the rate setting act, W. Va. Code '16-29B-1 et seq., to free-standing rehabilitation hospitals. If after further study the inclusion of free-standing rehabilitation hospitals appears to be appropriate, then the board will engage in rule making to that effect. This present exclusion of such hospitals is not a waiver of the board's jurisdiction to make such a later change.