Sec.17a-230-3. Advance payments

(a) The commissioner may make payments to a provider in advance of provider's rendering services for any of the following expenditures:

(1) Rent or mortgage, utilities and other costs incurred to open and maintain the private residential facility.

(2) Salaries, fringe benefits and other expenses for direct care, and professional staff incurred in order to (A) develop the residential services, (B) select, evaluate and place clients, or (C) both (A) and (B).

(3) Administrative and organizational expenses incurred in order to develop the private residential facility.

(b) Payments may only be made if expenses are incurred during the forty-five days just prior to the initial admission of the first client to the private residential facility.

(c) Prior approval shall be obtained by submitting in writing, on forms supplied by the department, an itemized budget of allowable costs to be incurred. The department may make advance payment prior to the expenditure of funds by the provider. Payments may be made no more than sixty days in advance of the admission of the first client to the private residential facility. Records of expenditures must be maintained by the provider and submitted to the department no later than forty-five days after the admission of the first resident.

(d) Expenditures submitted shall be considered proper if (1) they do not exceed charges made for comparable services to the general public, (2) are for those expenditures described in Sec. 3, (3) have prior approval, and (4) are incurred no earlier than forty-five days prior to the first admission to the private residential facility.

(e) If an expenditure is found to be improper by the department, and payment to the provider has already been made, the provider shall return such payment to the department within thirty days of receipt of written notice.

(f) Advance payments under this section shall be no greater than forty-five days of the per diem rate established for the private residential facility by the department of income maintenance multiplied by the number of approved beds.

(Effective June 28, 1994)