Oklahoma Code § 63-1-1908.1

or receivers – Nursing Facility Administrative Penalties Fund.
A.  The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall amend the state
Medicaid plan to provide a funding source for payment of temporary
managers, state monitors or receivers in facilities certified to
provide long-term care services under Medicaid, upon request of the
State Department of Health, pursuant to 42 U.S.C.A., Section
1396r(h)(z).

B.  There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving
fund for the State Department of Health to be designated the
“Nursing Facility Administrative Penalties Fund”.  The fund shall be
a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall
consist of all monies received by the State Department of Health
from administrative penalties imposed under the Nursing Home Care
Act.  Monies collected as a result of administrative penalties
imposed under the Nursing Home Care Act shall be deposited into the
fund.  All monies accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby
appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Department for
the protection of health or property of residents of nursing and
specialized nursing facilities that have been placed under temporary
managers, state monitors or receivers requested by the Department,
including, but not limited to, the following purposes:
1.  Relocation expenses incurred by the Department, in the event
of closure of a facility;
2.  Maintenance of facility operation pending correction of
deficiencies or closure, such as temporary management, state monitor
or receivership, in the event that the revenues of the facility are
insufficient; or
3.  The costs associated with informational meetings held by the
Department with residents, family members, and interested parties in
an affected community where the Department proceeds with appointment
of a temporary manager, state monitor or receivership petition.

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