5160-2-30 Hospital franchise fee program.

 

 

 

5160-2-30                    Hospital franchise fee program.

 

 

This rule sets forth the hospital franchise fee assessment and payment schedule applicable for the assessment program year that ends in calendar year 20142015, for the hospital franchise fee program implemented under sections 5168.20 to 5168.28 of the Revised Code.

 

(A)  Definitions

 

For purposes of the hospital franchise fee program only, ''total facility costs'' are as defined in section 5168.20 of the Revised Code, and also exclude a hospital's costs associated with providing care to recipients of the medicare program as shown on the cost-reporting data used for purposes of determining the hospital's assessment under section 5168.21 of the Revised Code.

 

(B)  Assessment

 

The amount of each hospital's franchise fee assessment for the assessment program year that ends in calendar year 2014 shall be 2.579425 2.6463589 per cent of the hospital's total facility costs as defined in paragraph (A) of this rule.

 

(C)  Payment schedule

 

Except as provided in paragraph (D)(3) of this rule, each hospital shall pay the amount it is assessed under paragraph (B) of this rule according to the following payment schedule:

 

(1)   Twenty-five Fifty per cent due on March 17, 2014April 30, 2015.

 

(2)   Twenty-five Fifty per cent due on April 7, 2014May 18, 2015.

 

(3) Fifty per cent due on May 5, 2014.

 

(D)  Hospitals not enrolled as medicaid providers

 

(1)    Hospitals, as defined in section 5168.20 of the Revised Code, that are not enrolled in the medicaid program shall, upon request, submit to the department an electronic copy of the hospital's medicare cost report (CMS 2552-10) or audited financial statements for the period described in section

5168.21 of the Revised Code.

 

(2)     Hospitals not enrolled as medicaid providers shall be assessed a hospital franchise fee as described in paragraph (B) of this rule.

 

 

 

 

(3)      Each hospital that is not enrolled as a medicaid provider shall pay the assessment according to a schedule established by the department at the time the department mails its written notice of the final determination of the hospital's assessment.

Effective:	04/30/2015
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:	01/01/2016
CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY
Certification
04/20/2015
Date
Promulgated Under:	119.03
Statutory Authority:	5164.02, 5168.23, 5168.26
Rule Amplifies:	5168.20, 5168.21, 5168.22, 5168.23, 5168.24,
Prior Effective Dates:	5168.25, 5168.26, 5168.27, 5168.28 10/14/10 (Emer), 1/1/11, 9/29/11 (Emer), 12/28/11, 3/10/13 (Emer), 7/29/13