| Passed by the Senate March 4, 2006 YEAS 44 ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House February 28, 2006 YEAS 97 ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6373 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. ________________________________________ Secretary | |
| Approved ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 59th Legislature | 2006 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/11/2006. Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.
AN ACT Relating to reporting to the legislature of holding a boarding home medicaid eligible resident's room or unit; and amending RCW 18.20.290.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 18.20.290 and 2004 c 142 s 13 are each amended to read
as follows:
(1) When a boarding home contracts with the department to provide
adult residential care services, enhanced adult residential care
services, or assisted living services under chapter 74.39A RCW, the
boarding home must hold a medicaid eligible resident's room or unit
when short-term care is needed in a nursing home or hospital, the
resident is likely to return to the boarding home, and payment is made
under subsection (2) of this section.
(2) The medicaid resident's bed or unit shall be held for up to
twenty days. The per day bed or unit hold compensation amount shall be
seventy percent of the daily rate paid for the first seven days the bed
or unit is held for the resident who needs short-term nursing home care
or hospitalization. The rate for the eighth through the twentieth day
a bed is held shall be established in rule, but shall be no lower than
ten dollars per day the bed or unit is held.
(3) The boarding home may seek third-party payment to hold a bed or
unit for twenty-one days or longer. The third-party payment shall not
exceed the medicaid daily rate paid to the facility for the resident.
If third-party payment is not available, the medicaid resident may
return to the first available and appropriate bed or unit, if the
resident continues to meet the admission criteria under this chapter.
(((4) The department shall monitor the use and impact of the policy
established under this section and shall report its findings to the
appropriate committees of the senate and house of representatives by
December 31, 2005.))
(5) This section expires June 30, 2006.