HB 2828 Summary

• Creates a Home-Based Quality Assurance Assessment on contracted community-based service providers at 5.5% of annual Medicaid gross receipts for quality care enhancements.

• Establishes the Home-Based Quality Assurance Fund as a continuing, non-appropriated revolving fund for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority funded by assessment revenues and federal Medicaid matching funds.

• Designates assessment payments as allowable Medicaid reimbursement costs and exempts the fund and related programs from budget cuts or reductions.

• Voids the assessment if federal Medicaid matching funds become unavailable or if a court of last resort invalidates the provision; requires return of collected assessments within 60 days if voided.

• Authorizes the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to promulgate enforcement rules and impose administrative penalties for non-payment or failure to report, with an effective date of November 1, 2010.