SECTION 554.1924. Financial Records

Nursing facility staff must maintain current financial records in accordance with recognized fiscal and accounting procedures. The facility must ensure that records clearly identify each charge and payment made on behalf of each resident residing in the facility. The facility must clearly state in its records to whom charges were made and for whom payment was received. Medicaid-certified facilities must also comply with the following requirements.

(1) The facility must make financial records and supporting documents available at any time within working hours and without prior notification for review by the Texas Department of Human Services, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Texas attorney general's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

(2) The facility must keep the financial records in the facility for a minimum of three years and 90 days after the termination of the contract period or for three years after the end of the federal fiscal year in which services were provided if there was a provider agreement/contract with no specific termination date in effect. The facility must also keep for the same period of time supporting fiscal documents and other records necessary to ensure claims for federal matching funds.

Source Note: The provisions of this §554.1924 adopted to be effective May 1, 1995, 20 TexReg 2393; transferred effective January 15, 2021, as published in the Texas Register December 11, 2020, 45 TexReg 8871