payment rates for home-based and community-based services,
including the data, inputs, assumptions, variables, calculations
and precise methodologies relied on and the source of all data,
variables and assumptions utilized in establishing the payment
rates notwithstanding whether the payment rates are developed by
the department or a third party. The information shall be made
available by the department to each provider, family and
consumer for inspection, examination and copying.
(2) A provider shall submit cost reports to the department,
or the department's designee, on or before September 30 of each
fiscal year that identify the costs incurred to render home-
based and community-based services during the prior fiscal year.
This paragraph shall expire October 1, 2020.
(1) The department shall publish in the Pennsylvania
Bulletin on or before March 31 of each year a public notice that
contains the proposed provider payment rates for the next fiscal
year sufficient to enable individuals with an intellectual
disability or autism, who are enrolled in any of the
department's federally approved medical assistance funded waiver
programs, to access services which must comply with the
department's quality of care standards and are necessary to meet
the needs of individuals with an intellectual disability or
autism, as identified in the individuals' approved individual
support plans.
(2) The notice shall solicit public comment on and contain a
detailed description of the precise methodologies utilized to
calculate the payment rates for home-based and community-based
services to be rendered under the waiver programs, including the
data, studies, assumptions, variables, calculations and any
other information relied upon and the source of all information
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