RCW 74.46.508
Direct care component rate allocation -- Increases -- Rules.

(1) The department is authorized to increase the direct care component rate allocation calculated under RCW 74.46.506(5) for residents who have unmet exceptional care needs as determined by the department in rule. The department may, by rule, establish criteria, patient categories, and methods of exceptional care payment.

     (2) The department may by July 1, 2003, adopt rules and implement a system of exceptional care payments for therapy care.

     (a) Payments may be made on behalf of facility residents who are under age sixty-five, not eligible for medicare, and can achieve significant progress in their functional status if provided with intensive therapy care services.

     (b) Payments may be made only after approval of a rehabilitation plan of care for each resident on whose behalf a payment is made under this subsection, and each resident's progress must be periodically monitored.

[2003 1st sp.s. c 6 § 1; 1999 c 181 § 2.]