RCW 70.127.295 — Home care safety net assessment—Financial information—Reporting.

1. (1) Each consumer directed employer and each in-home services agency that is licensed under this chapter to provide home care services, hospice services, or home health services shall submit financial information to the department as necessary to inform the development of a home care safety net assessment to use in securing federal matching funds under federally prescribed programs available through the state medicaid plan or a waiver, as specified in subsection (2) of this section.

2. (2) The financial information to be submitted under subsection (1) of this section shall be comprised of the following information related to in-home services client revenue, separated by type of service and payer, from the 12-month period between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023:

   1. (a) Total client revenue for home care services expressed as client revenue for home care services paid by:

      1. (i) Medicaid;
      2. (ii) Medicare;
      3. (iii) Private pay;
      4. (iv) Commercial insurance;
      5. (v) The veterans administration; and
      6. (vi) All other payers;

   2. (b) Total client revenue for home health services expressed as client revenue for home health services paid by:

      1. (i) Medicaid;
      2. (ii) Medicare;
      3. (iii) Private pay;
      4. (iv) Commercial insurance;
      5. (v) The veterans administration; and
      6. (vi) All other payers; and

   3. (c) Total client revenue for hospice services expressed as client revenue for hospice services paid by:

      1. (i) Medicaid;
      2. (ii) Medicare;
      3. (iii) Private pay;
      4. (iv) Commercial insurance;
      5. (v) The veterans administration; and
      6. (vi) All other payers.
3. (3) In-home services agencies and consumer directed employers shall submit the financial information to the department by January 1, 2024.

4. (4)

   1. (a) The department shall adopt guidance for reporting standards under subsection (1) of this section that assist in-home services agencies and consumer directed employers to deidentify any in-home services agency's clients from the financial information before submitting the financial information to the department.

   2. (b)

      1. (i) The financial information submitted to the department under this section is considered proprietary information and is confidential and may not be disclosed under chapter 42.56 RCW.

      2. (ii)

         1. (A) The department may only distribute nonaggregated financial information that identifies in-home services agencies and consumer directed employers, to the extent necessary, to:

            1. (I) Members of the work group established in RCW 74.39A.540 who are representing a state agency;
            2. (II) Executive branch agency staff who are providing support to the work group established in RCW 74.39A.540 or are involved in the development of a home care safety net assessment; and
            3. (III) An entity under contract with the health care authority to provide data analysis of the financial information as necessary to assist the work group established in RCW 74.39A.540 to carry out its responsibilities.
         2. (B) Any information that has been distributed pursuant to this subsection (4)(b)(ii) may not be further distributed by the recipient of the financial information and must be destroyed once the department and the health care authority have determined that it is no longer necessary for the support of the activities of the work group established in RCW 74.39A.540.
         3. (C) The health care authority may release reports containing nonaggregated data in order to meet relevant regulatory requirements.

5. (5) For the purposes of this section:

   1. (a) "Client revenue" means the total amount of revenue received as client care for in-home services determined on a cash basis of accounting. "Client revenue" includes all payments received as client care revenue from home care, home health, and hospice from medicaid, commercial insurance, and all other payers for payment for services rendered.
   2. (b) "Consumer directed employer" has the same meaning as in RCW 74.39A.009.

[ 2023 c 209 s 1.]