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Health and Safety Code - HSC

DIVISION 2. LICENSING PROVISIONS [1200 - 1796.70]

  ( Division 2 enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60. )
  

CHAPTER 2. Health Facilities [1250 - 1339.59]

  ( Chapter 2 repealed and added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1202. )
  

ARTICLE 7.5. Intermediate Care Facilities’ Quality Assurance Fees [1324 - 1324.14]
  ( Article 7.5 added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 230, Sec. 5. )

  
1324.4.  

(a) On or before August 31 of each year, each designated intermediate care facility subject to Section 1324.2 shall report to the department, in a prescribed form, the facility’s gross receipts for the preceding state fiscal year.

(b) On or before the last day of each calendar quarter, each designated intermediate care facility shall file a report with the department, in a prescribed form, showing the facility’s gross receipts for the preceding quarter.

(c) A newly licensed care facility, as defined by the department, shall be exempt from the requirements of subdivision (a) for its year of operation, but shall complete all requirements of subdivision (b) for any portion of the quarter in which it commences operations.

(d) The quality assurance fee, as calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1324.2, shall be paid to the department on or before the last day of the quarter following the quarter for which the fee is imposed.

(e) The payment of the quality assurance fee a designated intermediate care facility shall be reported as an allowable cost for Medi-Cal reimbursement purposes.

(f) The department shall make retrospective adjustments, as necessary, to the amounts calculated pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 1324.2 in order to assure that the facility’s aggregate quality assurance fee for any particular state fiscal year does not exceed 6 percent of the facility’s aggregate annual gross receipts for that year.

(Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 230, Sec. 5. Effective August 11, 2003. Conditionally inoperative as provided in Section 1324.12.)