22 §3175-B. Delinquent residential treatment facility taxes to be withheld from Medicaid payments - Maine Statutes

Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE

Subtitle 3: INCOME SUPPLEMENTATION HEADING: PL 1973, C. 790, §1 (AMD)

Part 1: ADMINISTRATION

Chapter 855: AID TO NEEDY PERSONS HEADING: PL 1973, C. 790, §2 (NEW)

§3175-B. Delinquent residential treatment facility taxes to be withheld from Medicaid payments

Whenever the commissioner receives written notice from the State Tax Assessor that a residential treatment facility is delinquent by more than 30 days in making a health care provider tax payment required by Title 36, section 2873, the commissioner shall, upon 10 days' written notice, withhold the outstanding amount of tax, together with any applicable interest and penalties, from the residential treatment facility's Medicaid payments. All amounts withheld by the commissioner pursuant to this section are deemed to be health care provider tax payments by the residential treatment facility and must be transferred within 30 days to the State Tax Assessor, who shall apply the amount in question to the residential treatment facility's tax account. [2001, c. 714, Pt. CC, §1 (NEW); 2001, c. 714, Pt. CC, §8 (AFF).]

SECTION HISTORY

2001, c. 714, §CC1 (NEW). 2001, c. 714, §CC8 (AFF).