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GA Code § 31-8-155 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6 - Indigent Care Trust Fund|§ 31-8-155. Promulgation of Rules for Funding Expansions of Eligibility and Indigent Care Programs

  The department shall establish by rules the purposes for which contributions and transfers to the trust fund may be made. Such purposes shall be consistent with the purposes contained in Code Section 31-8-154. Those rules shall be promulgated by the Board of Community Health pursuant to Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act," notwithstanding any exclusion or exemption otherwise provided in that chapter.   Contributions to the trust fund shall be made within such time periods as the department establishes by rule pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section.   The department may make and execute contracts, agreements, and other instruments for the purpose of facilitating transfers to the trust fund.   The department shall establish the manner of disbursement of any funds appropriated to it pursuant to this article.     (Code 1981, §31-8-155, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 388, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 296, § 24.)
GA Code § 31-8-156 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6 - Indigent Care Trust Fund|§ 31-8-156. Appropriation of State Funds by General Assembly

  The General Assembly is authorized to appropriate as state funds to the department for use in any fiscal year not less than all of the moneys contributed and revenues deposited and transferred to the fund and interest earned thereon.Such appropriation shall be made only for those purposes specified in Code Section 31-8-154, and any other appropriation from the trust fund shall be void.   An appropriation pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section shall specify each purpose, if any, as specified in paragraphs (1) through (4) of Code Section 31-8-154, for which the trust funds are appropriated thereby.   Funds appropriated to the department pursuant to this Code section shall be used to match federal funds or any other funds from a public source or charitable organization which are available for the purposes for which those trust funds have been appropriated.   Appropriations from the trust fund to the department shall be used to supplement and not replace any other state funds appropriated to the department.   Appropriations from the trust fund to the department, except as provided in Code Sections 31-8-157 and 31-8-158, shall not lapse to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year.     (Code 1981, §31-8-156, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 1240, § 4; Ga. L. 2016, p. 214, § 4/SB 308; Ga. L. 2017, p. 764, § 2-7/SB 193.)    The 2017 amendment,  effective July 1, 2017, substituted "(4)" for "(5)" in the middle of subsection (b).
GA Code § 31-8-157 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6 - Indigent Care Trust Fund|§ 31-8-157. Refunding Contributed Funds; Penalties Not Refunded

 All contributions to the trust fund and interest earned thereon which have been appropriated but which:    Were void because of having been appropriated in violation of Code Section 31-8-156;   Remain unexpended and not contractually obligated at the end of the fiscal year for which they were appropriated; or   Are determined by the department to be ineligible for anticipated federal matching funds or other matching funds from a public source or charitable organization  shall be returned to the trust fund and shall not lapse but shall be refunded pro rata to the contributors thereof, except that penalties so transferred to the fund shall not be refunded. The Office of Planning and Budget shall determine the amount required to be refunded and the pro rata distribution thereof within 60 days following the end of each fiscal year or, when the department has made a determination pursuant to paragraph (3) of this Code section, within 60 days after that determination. The amount so determined shall be refunded by the state treasurer within 60 days following that determination.      (Code 1981, §31-8-157, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 18; Ga. L. 2001, p. 1240, § 5; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 3/SB 296.)
GA Code § 31-8-158 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6 - Indigent Care Trust Fund|§ 31-8-158. Refunding Funds Not Appropriated or Determined Void or Ineligible

 Moneys transferred to the trust fund and interest earned thereon which have not been appropriated by the end of the fiscal year or which have been appropriated but have been determined to be:    Void because of having been appropriated in violation of Code Section 31-8-156;   Ineligible for anticipated federal matching funds;   Subject to return pursuant to any rule promulgated under Code Section 31-8-155; or   Void because of violation of the terms of a contract, agreement, or other instrument executed pursuant to subsection (c) of Code Section 31-8-155  shall be returned to the trust fund and refunded pro rata to the entities responsible for transfer. The refund shall be made by the state treasurer no less than 30 days following the end of the fiscal year or such a determination by the department, as applicable.      (Code 1981, §31-8-158, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 3/SB 296.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1, effective April 13, 1993, renumbered former Code Section 31-8-158 as present Code Section 31-8-159.
GA Code § 31-8-159 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6 - Indigent Care Trust Fund|§ 31-8-159. Reporting Requirements

  The department shall annually report to the General Assembly on its use of trust funds appropriated to the department pursuant to this article.   The department shall also provide an annual report no later than September 30 of each year which shall provide the following information for the immediately preceding fiscal year:   The amount of ambulance service license fees received by the department pursuant to Code Section 31-11-31.1;   The amount of federal funds received as matching funds to the corresponding ambulance service license fees received; and   The total amount of funds disbursed to emergency ambulance services from the Indigent Care Trust Fund.  The report required by this subsection shall be made available to the public free of charge by electronic means and in such other manner as the department deems appropriate.        (Code 1981, §31-8-158, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 139, § 1; Code 1981, §31-8-159, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 266, § 1/SB 479.)
GA Code § 31-8-160 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6 - Indigent Care Trust Fund|§ 31-8-160. Applicability of Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49

 Except where inconsistent with this article, the provisions of Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49, the "Georgia Medical Assistance Act of 1977," shall apply to the department in carrying out the purposes of this article.    (Code 1981, §31-8-159, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 139, § 1; Code 1981, §31-8-160, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1.)
GA Code § 31-8-161 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee|§ 31-8-161. Legislative Authority

 This article is passed pursuant to the authority of Article III, Section IX, Paragraph VI(i) of the Constitution.    (Code 1981, §31-8-161, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 435, § 2.)
GA Code § 31-8-162 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee|§ 31-8-162. Definitions

 As used in this article, the term:    "Department" means the Department of Community Health created by Chapter 2 of this title.   "Medically indigent" means a person who meets the state-wide standards of indigency adopted by the department.   "Nursing home" means a freestanding facility or distinct part or unit of a hospital required to be licensed or permitted as a nursing home under the provisions of Chapter 7 of this title which is not owned or operated by the state or federal government.   "Nursing home that disproportionately serves the medically indigent" means a nursing home for which the patient days attributable to medically indigent residents account for more than 15 percent of the nursing home's total patient days during a 12 month period. For purposes of this computation, medicare program patient days shall not be included in the nursing home's total patient days.   "Patient day" means a day of care provided to an individual resident of a nursing home by the nursing home. A patient day includes the date of admission but does not include the date of discharge, unless the dates of admission and discharge occur on the same day.   "Provider fee" means the fee imposed pursuant to this article for the privilege of operating a nursing home.   "Segregated account" means an account for the dedication and deposit of provider fees which is established within the Indigent Care Trust Fund created pursuant to Code Section 31-8-152.   "State plan" means all documentation submitted by the commissioner of the Department of Community Health on behalf of the department to and for approval by the United States secretary of health and human services, pursuant to Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act.   "Trust fund" means the Indigent Care Trust Fund created pursuant to Code Section 31-8-152.   "Waiver" means a waiver of the uniform tax requirement for permissible health care related taxes, as provided in 42 C.F.R. Section 433.68(e)(2)(i) and (ii).     (Code 1981, §31-8-162, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 435, § 2; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-8/HB 228.)
GA Code § 31-8-163 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee|§ 31-8-163. Segregated Account of Revenues Raised Through Provider Fees

 There is established within the trust fund a segregated account for revenues raised through the imposition of the provider fee. All revenues raised through provider fees shall be credited to the segregated account within the trust fund and shall be invested in the same manner as authorized for investing other moneys in the state treasury. Contributions and transfers to the trust fund pursuant to Code Sections 31-8-153 and 31-8-153.1 shall not be deposited into the segregated account.    (Code 1981, §31-8-163, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 435, § 2.)
GA Code § 31-8-164 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee|§ 31-8-164. Provider Fee Based on Patient Day; Quarterly Payment Required

  Each nursing home shall be assessed a provider fee with respect to each patient day for the preceding quarter, excluding medicare program patient days. The provider fee shall be assessed uniformly upon all nursing homes, except as provided in Code Section 31-8-168. The aggregate provider fees imposed under this article shall not exceed the maximum amount that may be assessed pursuant to the percentage limitation of the first prong of the test for an indirect guarantee set out in 42 C.F.R. Section 433.68(f)(3)(i).   The provider fee shall be paid quarterly by each nursing home to the department. A nursing home shall calculate and report the provider fee due upon a form prepared by the department and submit therewith payment of the provider fee no later than the thirtieth day following the end of each calendar quarter. The initial provider fee report shall be filed and the initial payment of the provider fee shall be submitted no later than July 30, 2003. A nursing home shall calculate and report the initial provider fee using information about its patient days for the quarter ending June 30, 2003.     (Code 1981, §31-8-164, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 435, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 204, § 1/HB 1308.)
GA Code § 31-8-165 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee|§ 31-8-165. Use of Segregated Account Funds; Form for Reporting Provider Fee; Maintenance of Records; Inaccurate Payments; Penalty for Failing to Pay

  The department shall collect the provider fees imposed pursuant to Code Section 31-8-164. All revenues raised pursuant to this article shall be deposited into the segregated account. Such funds shall be dedicated and used for the sole purpose of obtaining federal financial participation for medical assistance payments to nursing homes that disproportionately serve the medically indigent.   The department shall prepare and distribute a form upon which a nursing home shall calculate and report to the department the provider fee.   Each nursing home shall keep and preserve for a period of three years such books and records as may be necessary to determine the amount for which it is liable under this article. The department shall have the authority to inspect and copy the records of a nursing home for purposes of auditing the calculation of the provider fee. All information obtained by the department pursuant to this article shall be confidential and shall not constitute a public record.   In the event that the department determines that a nursing home has underpaid or overpaid the provider fee, the department shall notify the nursing home of the balance of the provider fee or refund that is due. Such payment or refund shall be due within 30 days of the department's notice.   Any nursing home that fails to pay the provider fee pursuant to this article within the time required by this article shall pay, in addition to the outstanding provider fee, a 6 percent penalty for each month or fraction thereof that the payment is overdue. If a provider fee has not been received by the department by the last day of the month, the department shall withhold an amount equal to the provider fee and penalty owed from any medical assistance payment due such nursing home under the Medicaid program. The provider fee levied by this article shall constitute a debt due the state and may be collected by civil action and the filing of tax liens in addition to such methods provided for in this article. Any penalty that accrues pursuant to this subsection shall be credited to the segregated account.     (Code 1981, §31-8-165, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 435, § 2.)
GA Code § 31-8-166 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee|§ 31-8-166. General Assembly Appropriations of Segregated Funds; Match to Federal Funds; No Lapsing at End of Fiscal Year

  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the General Assembly is authorized to appropriate as state funds to the department for use in any fiscal year all revenues dedicated and deposited into the segregated account. Such appropriations shall be made for the sole purpose of obtaining federal financial participation in the provision of support to nursing homes that disproportionately serve the medically indigent. Any appropriation from the segregated account for any purpose other than medical assistance payments to nursing homes shall be void.   Revenues appropriated to the department pursuant to this Code section shall be used to match federal funds that are available for the purpose for which such trust funds have been appropriated.   Appropriations from the segregated account to the department shall not lapse to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year.     (Code 1981, §31-8-166, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 435, § 2.)
GA Code § 31-8-167 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee|§ 31-8-167. Annual Report by Department to General Assembly

 The department shall report annually to the General Assembly on its use of revenues deposited into the segregated account and appropriated to the department pursuant to this article.    (Code 1981, §31-8-167, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 435, § 2.)
GA Code § 31-8-168 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee|§ 31-8-168. Request for Waiver From United States Department of Health and Human Services

 No later than July 1, 2003, the department shall prepare and submit to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services a request for approval of a waiver pursuant to 42 C.F.R. Section 433.68(e) of the uniform fee requirement. Upon approval of such waiver, the department shall take action to reduce the provider fee imposed pursuant to Code Section 31-8-164 allowed by such waiver for those providers who qualify for such reduction.    (Code 1981, §31-8-168, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 435, § 2.)
GA Code § 31-8-169 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6A - Nursing Home Provider Fee|§ 31-8-169. Application of the Medical Assistance Act of 1977

 Except where inconsistent with this article, the provisions of Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49, the "Georgia Medical Assistance Act of 1977," shall apply to the department in carrying out the purposes of this article.    (Code 1981, §31-8-169, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 435, § 2.)
GA Code § 31-8-170 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6B - Quality Assessment Fees on Care Management Organizations|§ 31-8-170. Legislative Authority

 This article is passed pursuant to the authority of Article III, Section IX, Paragraph VI(i) of the Constitution.    (Code 1981, §31-8-170, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 505, § 1/HB 392.)
GA Code § 31-8-171 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6B - Quality Assessment Fees on Care Management Organizations|§ 31-8-171. Definitions

 As used in this article, the term:    "Care management organization" means an entity granted a certificate of authority under Chapter 21 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated and which meets the definition found in 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396b(w)(7)(A)(viii) as it now exists or as it may be amended in the future.   "Department" means the Department of Community Health created by Chapter 2 of this title.   "Gross direct premium" shall have the meaning that the term has in Chapter 8 of Title 33 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated.   "Quality assessment fee" means the fee imposed pursuant to this article for the privilege of operating a care management organization.   "Segregated account" means an account for the dedication and deposit of provider fees which is established within the Indigent Care Trust Fund created pursuant to Code Section 31-8-152.   "Trust fund" means the Indigent Care Trust Fund created pursuant to Code Section 31-8-152.     (Code 1981, §31-8-171, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 505, § 1/HB 392; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-8/HB 228.)
GA Code § 31-8-172 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6B - Quality Assessment Fees on Care Management Organizations|§ 31-8-172. Segregated Account for the Deposit of Fees

 There is established within the trust fund a segregated account for revenues raised through the imposition of the quality assessment fee. All revenues raised through such fees shall be credited to the segregated account within the trust fund and shall be invested in the same manner as authorized for investing other moneys in the state treasury. Contributions and transfers to the trust fund pursuant to Code Sections 31-8-153 and 31-8-153.1 shall not be deposited into the segregated account.    (Code 1981, §31-8-172, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 505, § 1/HB 392.)
GA Code § 31-8-173 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients|Article 6B - Quality Assessment Fees on Care Management Organizations|§ 31-8-173. Assessment, Calculation, and Payment of Fees

  Each care management organization shall be assessed a quality assessment fee, in an amount to be determined by the department based on anticipated revenue estimates included in the state budget report, with respect to its gross direct premiums. The quality assessment fee shall be assessed uniformly upon all care management organizations. The aggregate quality assessment fees imposed under this article shall not exceed the maximum amount that may be assessed pursuant to 42 C.F.R. Section 433.68(f)(3)(i).   The quality assessment fee shall be paid monthly by each care management organization to the department. A care management organization shall calculate and report its gross direct premiums upon a form prepared by the department and submit therewith payment of the quality assessment fee no later than the tenth day of each calendar month, or in the discretion of the department and upon agreement of the care management organization, said amount may be calculated and withheld by the department from the current month's premium payment. Unless the department withholds the fee from the premium payment, the initial quality assessment fee report shall be filed and the initial payment of the quality assessment fee shall be submitted no later than the tenth day of the first month in which premiums are paid to the care management organizations for medical assistance to recipients. Unless the department withholds the fee from the premium payment, a care management organization shall calculate and report the initial quality assessment fee using information about its gross direct premiums for the first month in which premiums are paid to the care management organizations for medical assistance to recipients.     (Code 1981, §31-8-173, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 505, § 1/HB 392; Ga. L. 2006, p. 204, § 2/HB 1308.)