5101:3-3-82 Intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded (ICFs-MR): method for establishing the other protected costs component of the prospective rate.

(A) The Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) shall pay each eligible ICF-MR a per diem for each resident for other protected costs. This component of the rate will be established prospectively each fiscal year for each facility. This per diem shall be calculated by taking the desk-reviewed, actual, allowable other protected costs total except for the franchise permit fee (account number 6091) and dividing by the inpatient days. This information will come from the year ending cost report preceding the fiscal year in which the rate will be paid. This per diem will then be inflated by the estimated inflation rate as calculated under paragraph (B) of this rule and added to the per diem for the franchise permit fee as calculated under rule 5101:3-3-82.1 of the Administrative Code to determine the total other protected cost component of the prospective rate:

(B) ODJFS shall estimate the rate of inflation for the eighteen-month period using the consumer price index for all urban consumers for nonprescription drugs and the consumer price index for all urban consumers for medical supplies, as published by the United States bureau of labor statistics. The estimated inflation rate is calculated by taking the value of the indexes as of the thirty-first day of December in the fiscal year the rate will be paid, divided by the value of the indexes as of the first day of July in the immediately preceding calendar year. If the estimated inflation rate for the eighteen-month period is different from the actual inflation rate for that period, the difference shall be added to or subtracted from the inflation rate estimated for the following fiscal year.

Effective: 03/19/2012

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 12/15/2011 and 03/01/2017

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 5111.02

Rule Amplifies: 5111.20, 5111.235

Prior Effective Dates: 7/1/07