Bill > HF2159

This bill makes technical corrections to terminology in Minnesota's nursing facility payment rate laws, specifically focusing on two sections of state statutes related to performance-based incentive payments and planned closure rate adjustments. The bill adds the word "costs" to the phrase "external fixed" in two instances, which appears to be a clarifying language update rather than a substantive change to the law. In the first section (256R.38), the bill maintains existing provisions about how the state commissioner can develop additional incentive payments of up to 5% for nursing facilities that meet certain performance criteria, such as successfully diverting residents to community-based alternatives or improving quality metrics. The second section (256R.40, subdivision 5) addresses how planned closure rate adjustments are calculated when nursing facilities reduce their bed capacity, including how the adjustment is computed based on the number of beds reduced and how it can be reassigned within the same ownership structure. These changes appear to be primarily technical in nature, ensuring consistent and precise language in the state's statutory provisions governing nursing facility payments.

Labor and Employment

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2159&ssn=0&y=2025