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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 12. Health
Agency 30. Department of Medical Assistance Services
Chapter 90. Methods and Standards for Establishing Payment Rates for Long-Term Care
10/12/2024

12VAC30-90-271. Direct patient care operating.

A. Nursing service expenses.

1. Salary -- nursing administration. Gross salary (includes sick pay, holiday pay, vacation pay, staff development pay and overtime pay) of all licensed nurses in supervisory positions defined as follows (Director of Nursing, Assistant Director of Nursing, nursing unit supervisors, patient care coordinators and MDS coordinators).

2. Salaries -- RNs. Gross salary of registered nurses.

3. Salaries -- LPNs. Gross salary of licensed practical nurses.

4. Salaries -- Nurse aides. Gross salary of certified nurse aides.

5. Salaries -- Quality assurance nurses. Gross salary of licensed nurses who function as quality assurance coordinators and are responsible for quality assurance activities and programs. Quality assurance activities and programs are concerned with resident care and not with the administrative support that is needed to document the care. If a quality assurance coordinator is employed by the home office and spends a percentage of time at nursing facilities, report directly allocated costs to the nursing facility in this category rather than under the home office operating costs.

6. Nursing employee benefits. Benefits related to registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nurse aides, quality assurance nurses, and nursing administration personnel as defined in subdivision 1 of this subsection. See 12VAC30-90-272 B for description of employee benefits.

7. Contract nursing services. Cost of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nurse aides, and quality assurance nurses on a contract basis.

8. Supplies. Cost of supplies, including nursing and charting forms, medication and treatment records, physician order forms.

9. Professional fees. Medical director and pharmacy consultant fees.

B. Minor medical and surgical supplies.

1. Salaries -- medical supply. Gross salary of personnel responsible for procurement, inventory and distribution of minor medical and surgical supplies.

2. Medical supply employee benefits. Benefits related to medical supply personnel. See 12VAC30-90-272 B for description of employee benefits.

3. Supplies. Cost of items for which a separate identifiable charge is not customarily made, including, but not limited to, colostomy bags; dressings; chux; rubbing alcohol; syringes; patient gowns; basins; bed pans; ice-bags and canes, crutches, walkers, wheel chairs, traction equipment and other durable medical equipment for multi-patient use.

4. Oxygen. Cost of oxygen for which a separate charge is not customarily made.

5. Nutrient/tube feedings. Cost of nutrients for tube feedings.

6. Incontinence services. Cost of disposable and nondisposable incontinence supplies. The laundry supplies or purchased commercial laundry service for nondisposable incontinent services.

C. Ancillary service cost. Allowable ancillary service costs represents gross salary and related employee benefits of those employees engaged in covered ancillary services to Medicaid recipients, cost of all supplies used by the respective ancillary service departments, cost of ancillary services performed on a contract basis by other than employees and all other costs allocated to the ancillary service cost centers in accordance with Medicare principles of reimbursement.

Following is a listing of all covered ancillary services:

1. Radiology

2. Laboratory

3. Respiratory therapy

4. Physical therapy

5. Occupational therapy

6. Speech therapy

7. EKG

8. EEG

9. Medical supplies charged to patient

10. Kinetic therapy devices.

11. IV therapy.

Statutory Authority

§§ 32.1-324 and 32.1-325 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 14, Issue 1, eff. December 1, 1997; amended, Virginia Register Volume 18, Issue 18, eff. July 1, 2002; Volume 20, Issue 19, eff. July 1, 2004; Volume 23, Issue 20, eff. August 25, 2007.

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