Washington



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 |

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| |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, changed, or |For the period January 1, 2006 through June 30, 2006, ORM determined the funds would be expended at 71% |

|Clarified |occupancy. Twelve AL contractors had a Medicaid occupancy of 71% or greater for the six-month period |

| |beginning one year prior to January 1, 2006. |

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| |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). |

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| |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: |

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| |AL Facilities w/ and w/o the Capital Add-On Rate: |

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| |July 1, 2005 ADSA Community Residential Daily Rates: |

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|CONTACT(S): |Frank Hogenhout |

| |(360) 725-2532 |

| |Hogenfp@dshs. |

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