249A.21 - INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION -- ASSESSMENT. - Iowa Statutes

249A.21 INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION -- ASSESSMENT. 1. The department may assess intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation, as defined in section 135C.1, a fee in an amount not to exceed six percent of the total annual revenue of the facility for the preceding fiscal year. 2. The assessment shall be paid to the department in equal monthly amounts on or before the fifteenth day of each month. The department may deduct the monthly amount from medical assistance payments to a facility described in subsection 1. The amount deducted from payments shall not exceed the total amount of the assessments due. 3. Revenue from the assessments shall be credited to the state medical assistance appropriation. This revenue may be used only for services for which federal financial participation under the medical assistance program is available to match state funds. 4. If federal financial participation to match the assessments made under subsection 1 becomes unavailable under federal law, the department shall terminate the imposing of the assessments beginning on the date that the federal statutory, regulatory, or interpretive change takes effect. 5. The department of human services may procure a sole source contract to implement the provisions of this section. 6. The department may adopt administrative rules under section 17A.4, subsection 3, and section 17A.5, subsection 2, paragraph "b", to implement this section, and any fee assessed pursuant to this section against an intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation that is operated by the state may be made retroactive to October 1, 2003.          Section History: Recent Form 2002 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1001, §36, 46; 2004 Acts, ch 1085, §6, 7, 10, 11 Referred to in § 222.60A, 249A.12