Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3198

E Establishing a process to close nursing facilities and reallocate the savings
to other facilities; providing for submission of proposals for closure plans
from certain facilities to the commissioner of human services, authorizing the
commissioner to negotiate phased plans for closure of a certain number of
facilities between certain dates; providing eligibility for medical assistance
(MA) interim closure payments for facilities with approved closure plans
designated for closure and special rate adjustments for facilities with the
plans remaining open, specifying certain proposal content requirements;
providing for proposals for phased closure plans and for application of the
special rate adjustments; providing for review and approval of proposals by the
commissioner; providing for interim closure payments and for the calculation of
medical assistance cost savings from closure, criteria; facilities to remain
eligible for other applicable rate adjustments; authorizing the transfer of a
certain amount of the estimated savings from the medical assistance account to
the commissioner for relocation costs incurred by counties; requiring the
commissioner of health in approving nursing home moratorium exception projects
to give priority to proposals to build replacement facilities in or near the
city of Anoka; requiring the commissioners of health and human services to
report to the legislature by a certain date with recommendations for revision
and general application of the closure process and the commissioner of health to
study and report to the legislature by the same date on cessation or curtailing
of nursing home operations and the impact of relocation of nursing facility and
boarding care home residents on county government and on residents and families
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