Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
This rule sets forth the assessment rate
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
(1)
For the program
year that ends in calendar year 2020, the amount of each hospital's franchise
fee assessment shall be three and one thousand nine hundred sixty-five
ten-thousandths per cent of the hospital's total facility costs as defined in
paragraph (A) of this rule.
(2)
For the program
year that ends in calendar year 2021, the amount of each hospital's franchise
fee assessment shall be three and thirty-five hundredths per cent of the
hospital's total facility costs as defined in paragraph (A) of this
rule.
(3)
For the program year that ends in calendar year 2022,
and for each program year thereafter, the amount of each hospital's franchise
fee assessment shall be three and thirty-seven hundredths per cent of the
hospital's total facility costs as defined in paragraph (A) of this
rule.
(4)
The department may establish a rate higher or lower
than the rates described in paragraphs (B)(1) to (B)(3) of this rule based on
the franchise fee assessment needed to operate the current program
year.
(C) 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.
