North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 75 - Department of Human Services › Article 75-03 - Community Services › Chapter 75-03-15 - Ratesetting for Providers of Services to Foster Children - Qualified Residential Treatment Programs › Section 75-03-15-01 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1. "Administration" means the cost of
				activities performed by the facility employees in which the direct recipient of
				the activity is the organization itself. These include fiscal activities,
				statistical reporting, recruiting, and general office management which are
				indirectly related to services for which a rate is set.
2. "Allowable cost" means the facility's
				actual cost after appropriate adjustments as required by this
				chapter.
3. "Base rate" means a fee
				for service granted to the facility as a combination of allowable
				administrative and maintenance costs, such as salaries, fringe benefits,
				property costs, and other costs which allow the facility to operate and provide
				treatment and services to residents and their families.
4. "Bed hold" means a maximum fourteen-day
				reimbursable absence that is eligible to be included in census tracking when a
				resident absconds from placement or needs temporary hospitalization and the
				facility acknowledges acceptance of the resident back into placement when
				located or discharged from the hospital.
5. "Chain organization" means two or more
				program entities which are owned, leased, or, through any other device,
				controlled by one business entity.
6. "Department" means the North Dakota
				department of human services.
7.
				"Depreciable asset" means a capital asset or other asset for which the cost
				must be capitalized for statement of costs purposes.
8. "Depreciation" means an allocation of the
				cost of an asset over its estimated useful life.
9. "Difficulty of care" means the individual
				rate for each resident determined after the completion of the assessment
				administered by the department or designee.
10. "Facility" means a qualified residential
				treatment program.
11. "Property
				costs" means the allowable costs to operate the owned or leased
				property.
12. "Qualified
				residential treatment program" means a licensed or approved residence providing
				an out-of-home treatment placement for residents.
13. "Reasonable cost" means the cost of
				providing food, clothing, shelter, daily supervision, school supplies, and
				personal incidentals for residents, employee liability insurance with respect
				to residents, travel of a resident for visitation, and operation of the
				facility which must be incurred by an efficient and economically operated
				facility to provide services in conformity with applicable federal and state
				laws, regulations, rules, and quality and safety standards. Reasonable cost
				takes into account that the facility seeks to minimize costs and that actual
				costs do not exceed what a prudent and cost-conscious buyer pays for a given
				item or service.
14. "Resident"
				means an individual under the age of twenty-one admitted to and residing in the
				facility.
15. "Room and board"
				means the cost associated with the provision of shelter, food, dietary
				supplies, and housekeeping services and the maintenance thereof, including
				depreciation and interest or lease payments of a vehicle used for
				transportation of residents, included in the facility base rate.
General Authority
: NDCC 50-06-16,
					 50-11-03
Law Implemented
: NDCC 50-06-05.1,
					 50-11-03.2