Cash Receipts Assessment Program
August 10, 2006
Dear Administrator/Controller:
Effective April 1, 2005
This is to advise you that your Cash Receipts Assessment liability for report months April 2005 through June 2006 is now due and payable on or before September 15, 2006. Your July and August 2006 reports and payments are also due on September 15th.
In my letter to you dated May 4, 2005, you were advised that Section 18 of Part C of Chapter 58 of the Laws of 2005 provided authorization for a .35% cash receipts assessment applicable to cash received by general hospitals licensed under Article 28 of the Public Health Law (PHL), for the period April 1, 2005 through March 31, 2007. Pursuant to Section 20 of Chapter 58 as amended by Chapter 63 of the Laws of 2005, payment of the assessment was deferred until January 17, 2006, the due date of the December 2005 report month.
In September 2005, you were provided with a courtesy hard copy of the reporting forms and instructions that were available on the Pool Administrator's website, and advised that your reports had to be filed electronically with a separate report for each month beginning April 2005, even if there were no assessable cash receipts for the month.
In November 2005, you were provided with the forms and instructions to obtain a secure Internet connection with the Pool Administrator in order to meet your filing requirements. In my December 5, 2006 letter, I once again advised you that payment of the .35% assessment was deferred until further notice from the Department, but that you were still required to file the monthly reports.
Enclosed is a schedule of the amounts due based on your electronically filed reports for the period April 2005 through June 2006. Missing or delinquent reports that have not been electronically filed and your July and August 2006 reports are also due on or before September 15, 2006 along with the appropriate payments.
Failure to make payment and/or file delinquent reports by the due date, will result in the imposition of interest and penalty pursuant to Section 2807-d of the PHL. This section requires that the rate of interest be twelve percent (12%) per annum on the difference between the amount actually due and the amount paid by the due date for the applicable period which accrues from the day of the month payment was due until the date of payment. The statutory penalty is five percent (5%) for each month or fraction thereof that the underpayment is outstanding, up to a maximum of twenty-five percent (25%).
Checks should be made payable to the Health Facility Assessment Fund and sent to:
Please also adhere to the payment and filing schedule provided in my September 22, 2005 letter for the September 2006 and subsequent report months. The filing schedule and all of the letters referred to in this transmittal, are also on the Department's website at: <www.health.ny.gov/facilities/cash_assessment/index.htm
If you have any questions concerning your outstanding reports, please contact Ms. Joanne Yaworsky at the Office of Pool Administration at (315) 671-3800. For all other questions, please contact Mr. Walter Susko or Ms. Jeanne Wilson at (518) 473-4653. Sincerely, Mark H. Van Guysling
Director
Office of Pool Administration
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield of Central New York Region
P.O. Box 4757
Syracuse, NY 13221-4757
Director
Office of Pool Administration
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield of Central New York Region
344 South Warren Street
Syracuse, NY 13202-2008
Assistant Director
Division of Health Care Financing
