EMERGENCY RULES
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Aging and Disability Services Administration)
Effective Date of Rule: Immediately.
Purpose: The department is filing a second emergency adoption because the permanent adoption of the rules will not be complete by the expiration date (October 28, 2010) of the initial emergency adoption. The department has filed the proposed rules on October 12, 2010, with the code reviser. The rules will be published on November 17, 2010, in WSR 10-20-171. A public hearing will occur on December 7, 2010. The legislature in ESSB 6872 simplified chapter 74.46 RCW by repealing numerous section[s] and granting the department the authority to incorporate the detail of the repealed sections in chapter 388-96 WAC.
The amendments or adoptions to chapter 388-96 WAC to implement ESSB 6872 include but are not limited to the following: (1) The effect of bed banking on rates; (2) financing allowance component rate allocation minimum facility occupancy of licensed beds, regardless of how many beds are set up or in use at eighty-five percent for essential community providers, ninety percent for small nonessential community providers, and at ninety-two percent for large nonessential community providers; (3) to increase the categories for exceptional care rates; and (4) adopt new rules for pay-for-performance supplemental rates.
The department will amend or adopt new rules to implement ESSB 6444, section 206 that include but are not limited to WAC 388-96-766(3) to implement no rate add-ons to nursing facility medicaid payment rates for capital improvements not requiring a certificate of need and a certificate of capital authorization for fiscal year 2011.
On September 2, 2009, in WSR 09-17-003, http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2009/17/09-17-003.htm, the department indicated specific sections of chapter 388-96 WAC that it would amend. Also, the department stated that all sections may be amended to clarify regulations by codifying current policies and practices and editing previous codifications for substance and form.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 388-96-202, 388-96-740, 388-96-741, 388-96-742 and 388-96-749; and amending WAC 388-96-010, 388-96-108, 388-96-217, 388-96-218, 388-96-366, 388-96-384, 388-96-534, 388-96-535, 388-96-536, 388-96-542, 388-96-559, 388-96-561, 388-96-565, 388-96-585, 388-96-708, 388-96-709, 388-96-747, 388-96-748, 388-96-758, 388-96-759, 388-96-766, 388-96-776, 388-96-781, 388-96-782, 388-96-802, 388-96-803, 388-96-901, and 388-96-904.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapter 74.46 RCW as amended by chapter 34, Laws of 2010, ESSB 6444 Biennial Appropriations Act and by chapter 37, Laws of 2010, ESSB 6872.
Under RCW 34.05.350 the agency for good cause finds that immediate adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule is necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety, or general welfare, and that observing the time requirements of notice and opportunity to comment upon adoption of a permanent rule would be contrary to the public interest; and that in order to implement the requirements or reductions in appropriations enacted in any budget for fiscal years 2009, 2010, or 2011, which necessitates the need for the immediate adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule, and that observing the time requirements of notice and opportunity to comment upon adoption of a permanent rule would be contrary to the fiscal needs or requirements of the agency.
Reasons for this Finding: ESSB 6872, section 23 and ESSB 6444, section 958.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 28, Amended 28, Repealed 5.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: October 22, 2010.
Katherine I. Vasquez
Rules Coordinator
Reviser's note: The material contained in this filing exceeded the page-count limitations of WAC 1-21-040 for appearance in this issue of the Register. It will appear in the 10-24 issue of the Register.