Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 770 - Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs › Chapter 10 - Center Division Program › Subchapter 3 - Maintenance Charges, Patient Funds and Assets › Section 770:10-3-1 - Care and maintenance charges

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) Residents of all Oklahoma Veterans
				Centers shall be assessed a care and maintenance charge based upon the level of
				care and treatment provided to them and grant assistance or other payments
				received on the resident's behalf.
(b) The claim of the State for such care and
				treatment shall constitute a valid indebtedness against any such resident and
				his estate and shall not be barred by any statute of limitations. At the death
				of the resident, this claim shall be allowed and paid as other lawful claims
				against the estate. Failure to pay care and maintenance charges assessed is
				basis for discharge.
(c) Nursing
				care shall include room and board in the nursing care of the Veterans Center
				and the full range of medical and nursing services offered in-house at the
				Center. Medical and nursing services shall minimally include: staff physician
				services, nursing care, all required medications and their administration, all
				necessary x-ray and laboratory services which are performed in-house by the
				Center and all required therapy services performed in-house by the Center.
				Nursing care does not include those medical or other services not included
				above which a resident requires or receives outside those provided within and
				by the Center, personal discretionary use items such as tobacco or the purchase
				of street clothes. Services provided by and through contractors or other third
				parties may be excluded as not performed by the Center regardless of the
				location of services.
(d) Care and
				maintenance charges begin on the day of admission and cease on the day of
				discharge. Care and maintenance charges for partial months of residency are
				pro-rated, except in the event of a resident's expiration at the Center. If the
				resident expires at the Center, the care and maintenance charge ends on the
				first day of the month in which an Oklahoma Veterans Center resident expires.
(e) Care and maintenance charges
				are due and payable on the first of each month for services received in the
				preceding month. Absent exigent circumstances as approved by the Central
				Office, electronic payment shall be required to satisfy monthly care and
				maintenance charges.
(f) Payments
				by debit card, credit card, and other means of electronic funds transfer shall
				be subject to the following terms:
(1)
"Nationally recognized"
credit card means any instrument or
				device, whether known as a credit card, credit plate, charge plate, debit card,
				or by any other name, issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of
				the cardholder in lieu of a check, as defined by 12A Oklahoma Statute §
				3-104(f), in obtaining goods, services or anything else of value or for the use
				of the cardholder in obtaining such goods, services, or anything else of value
				on credit and which, in either case, is accepted by over one thousand merchants
				in this state. The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs shall determine
				which nationally recognized credit cards will be accepted for any payments due
				and owing to the Department.
(2)
				Implementation of payment by nationally recognized credit card and other means
				of electronic funds transfer will be phased in over a period of time as
				determined by the Department.
(3)
				The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs will verify that sufficient credit
				is available before acceptance of credit card to insure that no loss of state
				revenue will occur by the use of such card.
(A) If a person is at a designated receiving
				point and credit is not available, the person then has the opportunity to pay
				by other methods accepted by the Department.
(B) If a person mails in the credit card
				information and credit is not available, the transaction will re-processed in
				accordance with any authorization executed by the cardholder. Until payment is
				completed, the transaction will be classified as one with no remittance and a
				bill will be forthcoming.
(4) The Oklahoma Department of Veterans
				Affairs may add an amount up to that equal to the amount of the processing,
				service, or convenience charges incurred, not to exceed four percent (4%) of
				the amount of such payment as a service charge for the acceptance of such
				nationally recognized card.
(5)
				Persons wishing to pay by credit card must be willing to submit normally
				required credit card information to the Department. This includes, but is not
				limited to: card type (VISA, etc.), card number, card expiration date, card
				holder name as shown, and three digit verification, security, or personal
				identification number (PIN). The Department assumes no liability for
				unauthorized use of this information.
(6)
"Electronic funds transfer"
means any transfer of funds, other than a transaction originated by check,
				draft, or similar paper instrument, which is initiated through an electronic
				terminal, telephonic instrument, or computer or magnetic tape so as to order,
				instruct, or authorize a financial institution to debit or credit an account.
(7)
"Electronic
				terminal"
means an electronic device, other than a telephone operated by
				a person, through which a person may initiate an electronic funds transfer.
(8)
"Financial
				institution"
means a State or National bank, a State or Federal savings
				and loan association, a mutual savings bank, a State or Federal credit union,
				or any other person who, directly or indirectly, holds an account belonging to
				another person.
(9)
"State"
means any State, territory, or possession of the United
				States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any
				political subdivision of any of the foregoing.