205.5602 Definitions for this section and KRS 205.5601 and 205.5603 -- Duties of
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Department for Medicaid Services regarding ground ambulance service
transports -- Assessment amount and administration -- Need for state plan or
waiver amendment -- Reports.
(1)For purposes of this section and KRS 205.5601 and 205.5603:
(a)"Ground ambulance provider" means a ground ambulance provider licensed
in accordance with administrative regulations promulgated by the Kentucky
Board of Emergency Medical Services;
(b)"Assessment" means the Medicaid ambulance service provider assessment
imposed in KRS 142.318;
(c)"Board" means the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services;
(d)"Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department for Medicaid
Services; and
(e)"Department" means the Department for Medicaid Services.
(2)The department shall:
(a)Promulgate administrative regulations to establish the standards and
procedures necessary to implement the provisions of this section and KRS
205.5601 and 205.5603;
(b)Calculate an assessment on emergency ground transport collections pursuant
to subsection
(3)of this section;
(c)Administer assessment proceeds according to subsection
(6)of this section;
(d)Apply uniformly to all assessed ground ambulance providers any annual
changes to the assessment rate according to the process described in
subsection
(3)of this section; and
(e)Evaluate current ground ambulance provider reimbursement rates paid by
managed care organizations and require increases consistent with:
1. KRS 205.5601 and this section;
2. Current fee-for-service reimbursement rates; and
3. An adequate network of ambulance service providers.
(a)The assessment due from a ground ambulance provider on emergency ground
transport collections shall be not less than one-half of one percent (0.5%)
lower than the maximum limit for a provider assessment as approved by the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
(b)For illustrative purposes only, if the maximum limit for a provider assessment
as approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is six percent
(6%) of the emergency revenues collected by the ground ambulance provider,
the minimum taxable limit under this section would be five and one-half
percent (5.5%) of the emergency revenues collected.
(4)The assessment shall not generate more than the maximum amount as approved by
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
(a)1. Within ninety
(90)days after July 15, 2020, the commissioner shall
determine whether a state plan amendment or an amendment to any
Kentucky federal Medicaid waiver is required to implement this section.
2. If the commissioner determines that a state plan amendment or an
amendment to a Kentucky federal waiver is necessary, the commissioner
is authorized to seek any necessary state plan or waiver amendment, and
the assessment shall not take effect until the state plan or waiver
amendment is approved.
(b)The assessment shall not be implemented until the first day of the calendar
quarter after the Department for Medicaid Services receives notice of federal
matching funds approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services and has notified the Department of Revenue of that approval.
(c)The commissioner shall implement this section to the extent that it is not
inconsistent with the state Medicaid plan or any Kentucky federal Medicaid
waivers.
(d)Payments to ground ambulance providers shall begin within ninety
(90)days
of the later of the approval of federal matching funds, the state plan, or waiver
amendment. The first monthly assessment payment shall be due sixty
days after the implementation of the enhanced fee schedule.
(6)The assessment shall be administered as follows:
(a)An annual amount of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) shall be
returned to the department to offset the Medicaid administration expenses;
(b)The remaining portion of the assessment shall:
1. Be utilized to increase the rates paid by a managed care organization for
emergency ambulance services up to the amount paid by the fee-for-
service Medicaid program for emergency ambulance services; or
2. Be paid as supplemental payments to ground ambulance providers in a
proportional amount according to the total Medicaid ambulance
transports; and
(c)If any funds are remaining after the department's duties have been completed
under paragraph
(b)of this subsection, the remaining funds shall be utilized
by the department to increase non-emergency medical transport rates.
(7)Each ground ambulance provider shall report to the board, at the time and in the
manner required by the board, ground emergency revenue collected to accomplish
the purposes of this section and KRS 205.5603.
(a)No more than one hundred eighty
(180)days after the end of each calendar
year, the board shall submit to the cabinet transport data for all ground
ambulance providers licensed in Kentucky.
(b)The data required by paragraph
(a)of this subsection shall, at a minimum,
include the number of emergency ground transports completed during the
previous calendar year and the emergency revenue collected.