Nursing Home Cost Reports Due Mid-August

The 2013 nursing home Medicaid cost report and related documents and certifications are due Aug. 15.  Please note that the Department of Health (DOH) has established Aug. 11 as the date by which any operator or CPA that will be certifying a cost report must have the necessary Health Commerce System (HCS) access for electronic certification.  Instructions and forms for this are included with the cost report Dear Administrator Letters (DALs).       

The DAL for homes that file the RHCF-4 report is here.  The DAL for hospital-based homes that file the RHCF-2 report is here.

Members have noted that the formatting of new Schedule 10B does not always allow the requested information to be entered in the appropriate format.  For example, some cells that request dates reformat user entries into numbers.  If encountering such problems, we recommend that members enter the year in the cell and provide the complete date or other additional information in the note pad.   

Homes that fail to file and certify the report and any additional required documents on time receive a lower quality pool score, face delays in the calculation of their capital component and may be subject to penalties.  DOH has stressed that no extensions will be provided. 

If you have any questions concerning access to the HCS please contact Mr. David C. Szelest at (518) 474-3267. If you have questions regarding the RHCF-4 Cost Report form please email BVAPR@health.state.ny.us.

Contact: Darius Kirstein, dkirstein@leadingageny.org, 518-867-8841