SB 6451 - DIGEST

Provides that, to the extent of available funding within the biennial appropriations act, the department shall make supplemental payments to nursing facilities. The payments shall be supplemental to the component rate allocations calculated in accordance with part E of chapter 74.46 RCW, and neither the provisions of part C of this chapter nor the provisions of part E of this chapter shall apply to these supplemental payments, except that RCW 74.46.421(4) (a) and (b) shall apply.

Provides that the department shall, effective July 1, 2003, and through June 30, 2004, make a retroactive supplemental payment to nursing facilities to reimburse the full difference between the medicaid proportionate share of the reported property and liability insurance costs for cost reports filed for 1999, and the medicaid proportionate share of the reported property and liability insurance costs for cost reports filed for 2002.