TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 8. Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients, 31-8-1 through 31-8-306.

ARTICLE 6A NURSING HOME PROVIDER FEE

31-8-164. Provider fee based on patient day; quarterly payment required.

1. 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).
2. 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.)