1. (a) All health care facilities defined in He-C 1550.02(f) shall be required to file financial data with the department or its agent.

2. (b) Financial data shall be submitted annually to the department:

   1. (1) Within 4 months following the end of the health care facility’s fiscal year, in accordance with He-C 1550.04(a);
   2. (2) Within 30 days following the request of the department, in accordance with He-C 1550.04(b), which shall be no sooner than 4 months following the end of the health care facility’s fiscal year; or
   3. (3) In the case of the medicare cost report, within 30 days of submission to the medicare fiscal intermediary and within 30 days of receipt of a settled cost report from the medicare fiscal intermediary, in accordance with He-C 1550.04(i).
3. (c) Financial data may be submitted in either paper format or electronic format, provided that all electronic submissions shall be in pdf format or another read-only format that maintains the documents’ security and integrity.
4. (d) Provisions of this rule shall not void any contractual requirements for filing financial statements by health care facilities.
5. (e) Contractual requirements shall not void provisions of these rules.

Source. # 9781, eff 1-1-11, EXPIRED: 1-1-19 New. #12723, INTERIM, eff 2-14-19, EXPIRES: 8-13-19