Utah Code § 26B-3-405: Adjustment to nursing care facility Medicaid reimbursement rates.

If federal law or regulation prohibits the money in the Nursing Care Facilities Provider Assessment Fund from being used in the manner set forth in Subsection 26B-1-332(1)(b), the rates paid to nursing care facilities for providing services pursuant to the Medicaid program shall be changed:

(1) except as otherwise provided in Subsection (2), to the rates paid to nursing care facilities on June 30, 2004; or

(2) if the Legislature or the department has on or after July 1, 2004, changed the rates paid to facilities through a manner other than the use of expenditures from the Nursing Care Facilities Provider Assessment Fund, to the rates provided for by the Legislature or the department.