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This bill modifies terminology in Minnesota's nursing facility payment rates statute by making a minor linguistic change to section 256R.38, which governs performance-based incentive payments for nursing facilities. Specifically, the bill adds the word "costs" after "external fixed" when describing how incentive payments will be incorporated into facility payment rates. The existing law already allows the state commissioner to develop additional incentive-based payments up to 5% above a facility's standard operating payment rate, contingent on achieving specific outcomes. These outcomes can include successfully helping residents return to community settings, adopting new technologies, improving quality metrics as measured by the Minnesota Nursing Home Report Card, reducing acute care costs, or meeting other performance criteria proposed by nursing facilities and deemed desirable by the commissioner. The incentive payments are structured as time-limited rate adjustments and are awarded through competitive proposals and memorandums of understanding that specify different payment levels based on performance achievements. The bill appears to be a technical clarification that does not substantially change the underlying policy or funding mechanism for nursing facility incentive payments.

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https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF2750&ssn=0&y=2025