Licensed Boarding Homes with Assisted Living Contracts Receiving a Capital Add-On Rate

H06 - 001- Procedure January 3, 2006

TO: Area Agency on Aging (AAA) Directors Home and Community Services (HCS) Division Regional Administrators FROM: Bill Moss, Director, Home and Community Services Division

Kathy Marshall, Director, Management Services Division

SUBJECT: LICENSED BOARDING HOMES WITH ASSISTED LIVING CONTRACTS RECEIVING A CAPITAL ADD-ON RATE JANUARY 1, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2006

PURPOSE: To notify field staff of the Licensed Boarding Homes with Assisted Living (AL) contracts that will receive a capital add-on to the Medicaid daily rate for the six-month period beginning January 1, 2006. BACKGROUND: In accordance with WAC 388-105-0035, the Office of Rates Management/Management Services Division (ORM/MSD) bi- yearly calculates each AL contractor’s Medicaid occupancy percentage to determine the AL Medicaid minimum occupancy percentage. This determines the estimated, total budgeted funds for capital add-ons for the upcoming six-month period to be expended.

WHAT’S NEW, For the period January 1, 2006 through June 30, 2006, ORM CHANGED, OR determined the funds would be expended at 71% occupancy. CLARIFIED Twelve AL contractors had a Medicaid occupancy of 71% or greater for the six-month period beginning one year prior to January 1, 2006. Effective January 1, 2006, ORM has added the following facilities to the list of AL Facilities Receiving a Capital Add-On Rate : . Beehive Retirement Center (McCleary); . Albright House (Bremerton); . Rosewood Villa LLC (Bellingham); . Yakima Retirement Center, Inc (Yakima); . German Retirement Home (Kirkland); and . Pioneer House (Walla Walla).

Effective January 1, 2006, ORM removed the following AL facilities that are not eligible to receive a capital add-on rate from the list of AL Facilities Receiving a Capital Add-On Rate: . Crawford House (Kelso); . Richland Gardens (Richland); and . Bethany at Silver Crest (Everett).

ACTION: Field staff must adjust rates for all Medicaid residents residing in the facilities listed above by the January 2006 SSPS cutoff date. To make the adjustments, field staff must use the attached schedule of rates effective July 1, 2005. RELATED WAC 388-105-0035 REFERENCES: ATTACHMENT(S): AL Facilities w/ Capital Add-On Rate for 1-06 through 7-06:

"H04-060 A1 AL Fac Rec Cap .doc" AL Facilities w/ and w/o the Capital Add-On Rate:

"H04-060 A2 AL-W W-O CAD.xls"

July 1, 2005 ADSA Community Residential Daily Rates:

Q:\HC_Rates\AFH CARE Rates.xls CONTACT(S): Frank Hogenhout (360) 725-2532 [email protected]