WSR 19-05-008
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Aging and Long-Term Support Administration)
[Filed February 7, 2019, 10:29 a.m., effective March 10, 2019]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: The department is adding this new overpayment section for individual providers to chapter 388-71 WAC to define the circumstances in which an individual provider is subject to an overpayment, clarify the department's authority to collect an overpayment, clarify an individual provider's right to an administrative hearing when they receive an overpayment notice, and provide information about how an individual provider requests an administrative hearing related to an overpayment.
Citation of Rules Affected by this Order: New WAC 388-71-0548.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 18-21-150 on October 19, 2018.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: The department added "erroneous or" to subsection (1)(k).
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: February 6, 2019.
Katherine I. Vasquez
Rules Coordinator
NEW SECTION
WAC 388-71-0548When is an individual provider subject to an overpayment?
(1) Unless payment is otherwise required by state or federal law, it is an overpayment as defined in RCW
43.20B.010 and
41.05A.170 if an individual provider (IP) is paid by the department and:
(a) Did not actually perform the work;
(b) Payment is for dates of service after the death of the client;
(c) Payment is for services provided when the client was admitted to a hospital, nursing home, or other institutional setting;
(d) Payment is for dates of service when the client was outside of the United States;
(e) Did not have a valid IP services contract at the time the services were provided and had been notified by the department to stop the provision of services;
(f) Had not completed required training or obtained required certification at the time the services were provided and had been notified by the department to stop the provision of services;
(g) Had a disqualifying crime or negative action at the time the services were provided and had been notified by the department to stop the provision of services;
(h) Provided services after being notified by the department to stop the provision of services;
(i) Provided services that are not included in the client's plan of care;
(j) Provided services that exceeded the amount of the client's benefit in the client's plan of care where those services were not necessitated by an emergent and immediate need of the client and the IP is not a family member or household member of the client; or
(k) Received erroneous or duplicate payment(s).
(2) If the department determines an IP was overpaid, even if it was due to department error, the department recovers any moneys that the IP received as a result of overpayments, as authorized under chapter
41.05A RCW or
43.20B RCW.
(a) The department will send the IP notice of the overpayment.
(b) The IP has a right to request an administrative hearing when notice of an overpayment is received from the department.
(c) To request an administrative hearing, an IP must send a written request to the office of financial recovery within twenty-eight days of the IP's receipt of notice of the overpayment that:
(i) States the basis for contesting the overpayment notice;
(ii) Includes a copy of the department's notice with the request; and
(iii) Is sent by certified mail return receipt requested (CMRRR) or another trackable delivery service.
(d) The appeal process will be governed by the Administrative Procedure Act (chapter
34.05 RCW).