Section 1181.243. Social service staff

Cost, pro rata, of up to one full-time equivalent unit of social service professional staff for each 60 patients will be allowable.

The provisions of this § 1181.243 adopted August 5, 1983, effective July 1, 1983, 13 Pa.B. 2402.

Notation

Notes of Decisions

Allowable Costs

Department of Public Welfare’s regulations capping the amount of reimbursement to Medical Assistance providers for nursing care excludes salaries of unit managers and director of infection control program; even though the managers and director had nursing degrees, they did not provide direct patient care and therefore their salaries did not constitute ‘‘nursing costs.’’ St. Ignatius v. Department of Public Welfare, 918 A.2d 838, 845-846 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2007)

Nursing home’s purchase of bereavement flowers for nursing facility employees was not an expense that was related to the proper care of nursing reimbursement facility residents; therefore, Department of Public Welfare properly excluded the expense from facility’s allowable Medical Assistance costs. St. Ignatius v. Department of Public Welfare, 918 A.2d 838, 846-847 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2007)