HOME WHAT'S NEW REPORTS     RULES ADOPTED ON FRIDAY,  JANUARY 14, 2000    Following was adopted by Dept. of Health Care Policy & Financing to Board of Medical Services on Friday, January 14, 2000.  Effective February 1, 2000, interim payment rates shall be adjusted to equal no more than 16.5% average increase per unduplicated client for Fiscal Year 99-00. The interim rates shall not be reduced, if total Medicaid home health expenditures in State FY 99-00 do not exceed $73,571,787.  If total expenditures for the Home Health budget do exceed $73,571,787, the Department shall determine which Home Health Agencies received average per unduplicated client payments for FY 99-00 Home Health services which were more than 16.5% over FY 98-99 average per unduplicated client payments, and shall recoup from those agencies the amounts over the 16.5% average per unduplicated client increase. This shall be accomplished by decreasing each agency's unit rates, retro-active to February 1, 2000, by a percentage that will bring each agency's average payment per unduplicated client for FY 99-00 to no more than a 16.5 % increase over its FY 98-99 average per unduplicated client payment.  Agencies that became newly certified as Medicare/Medicaid providers in FY 99-00 and have no Medicaid Home Health payment history for FY 98-99 shall be exempt.     Go to Options Proposed ~ Go to Testimony Resented ~ Return Home     Home Care Association of Colorado  7853 E. Arapahoe Ct., Suite 2100 Englewood, CO 80112-1361  Fax (303) 694-4869 - Phone (303) 694-4728  hcac@assnoffice.com