441—25.73 (78GA,ch1221) Rate-setting process. For services provided on or after July 1, 2000, each county shall increase its reimbursement rates for each program to the lesser of the adjusted actual cost or 105 percent of the rate paid for services provided on June 30, 2000.
	 25.73(1) Financial and statistical report. Each provider of POS services shall submit a financial and statistical report to each host county for each program that the provider operates within that county. These reports shall include actual costs for each separate program for the provider’s fiscal year that ended during state fiscal year 1999 and state fiscal year 2000. These reports shall be submitted to the central point of coordination (CPC) administrator of the host county or counties no later than August 15, 2000.
	 25.73(2) Rate determination. The CPC administrator in each host county shall receive and review provider financial and statistical reports for each separate program for which that county is the host county. If the host county determines that all or part of the provider’s increase in costs is attributable to increases in service staff compensation and that the adjusted actual cost is more than the rate paid by the county on June 30, 2000, the CPC administrator shall notify the provider in writing of the new rate for each program no later than September 1, 2000.
If a rate paid for services provided on June 30, 2000, exceeds the adjusted actual cost, the county shall not be required to adjust the rate for services provided on or after July 1, 2000.
The provider shall, no later than September 11, 2000, send to the CPC administrator of any other counties with consumers in those programs a copy of the rate determination signed by the CPC administrator of the host county. A county may delay payment of the reimbursement rate established pursuant to this subrule until the risk pool board has completed action as to adopting or not adopting a different percentage for the definition of adjusted actual cost, provided however that any increased rates required by 2000 Iowa Acts, chapter 1221, section 3, subsection 2, paragraph “c,” shall be paid retroactively for all services provided on or after July 1, 2000.
	 25.73(3) Exemptions.
	  a.   	 A POS provider that has negotiated a reimbursement rate increase with a host county as of July 1, 2000, has the option of exemption from the provisions of these rules. However, a county shall not be eligible to receive tobacco settlement funds for any rates established outside of the process established in these rules.
	  b.   	 Nothing in these rules precludes a county from increasing reimbursement rates of POS providers by an amount that is greater than that specified in these rules. However, a county shall not be eligible for tobacco settlement funds for the amount of any rate increase in excess of the amount established pursuant to these rules.