17500105 - Chargeback for Workers' Compensation

Account Description FY2014
Spending
FY2015
GAA
1750-0105 Chargeback for Workers' Compensation
For the cost of workers' compensation paid to public employees; provided, that the secretary of administration and finance shall charge other items or state agencies for costs incurred on behalf of these state agencies; provided further, that the secretary may transfer workers' compensation-related fringe benefit assessments from federal grants and trust accounts to this item; provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item that would cause the item to be deficient; provided further, that the secretary shall provide projected costs of workers' compensation costs incurred by agencies in fiscal year 2015 to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than March 3, 2015; provided further, that in accordance with chapter 177 of the acts of 2001, the secretary of administration and finance shall charge state agencies in fiscal year 2015 as provided in this item for workers' compensation costs, including related administrative expenses incurred on behalf of the employees of the agencies; provided further, that administrative expenses shall be allocated; provided further, that the personnel administrator shall administer the charges on behalf of the secretary and may establish such rules and procedures as deemed necessary to implement this item; provided further, that the personnel administrator shall: (i) notify agencies regarding the chargeback methodology to be used in fiscal year 2015; (ii) notify agencies of the amount of their estimated workers compensation charges for the fiscal year; and (iii) require agencies to encumber funds in an amount sufficient to meet the estimated charges; provided further, that the estimated charges for each agency in the fiscal year shall not be less than the amount of the actual workers' compensation costs, including related administrative expenses, incurred by each such agency in fiscal year 2015 and may include such additional amounts as the human resources division finds necessary under regulations adopted under this item; provided further, that the division may adopt a program of incentives for agencies to reduce agencies' claims; provided further, that for any agency that fails within 30 days of the effective date of this act to encumber funds sufficient to meet the estimated charges, the comptroller shall so encumber funds on behalf of that agency; provided further, that the personnel administrator shall: (a) determine the amount of the actual workers' compensation costs incurred by each agency in the preceding month, including related administrative expenses; (b) notify each agency of the amounts; and (c) charge the amounts to each agency's accounts as estimates of the costs to be incurred in the current month; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, any balance remaining in the Intergovernmental Service Fund at the close of fiscal year 2015 shall be transferred to the General Fund; provided further, that any unspent balance at the close of fiscal year 2015 in an amount not to exceed 5 per cent of the amount authorized shall remain in the Intergovernmental Service Fund and is hereby re-authorized for expenditures for such item in fiscal year 2016; provided further, that the personnel administrator may expend in fiscal year 2015 for hospital, physician, benefit and other costs related to workers' compensation for employees of state agencies, including administrative expenses; and provided further, that the expenditures may include payments for medical services provided to claimants in prior fiscal years, as well as compensation benefits and associated costs for prior fiscal years
                Intragovernmental Service Fund ............... 100%
59,792,072 58,603,077