68-1923.

Quality assurance assessment; report; medicaid cost report; how treated.

A nursing facility or skilled nursing facility shall report the quality assurance assessment on a separate line of the medicaid cost report of the nursing facility or skilled nursing facility. The quality assurance assessment shall be treated as a separate component in developing rates paid to nursing facilities or skilled nursing facilities and shall not be included with existing rate components. In developing a rate component for the quality assurance assessment, the assessment shall be treated as a direct pass-through to each nursing facility and skilled nursing facility, retroactive to July 1, 2011. The quality assurance assessment shall not be subject to any cost limitation or revenue offset.