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HF 335

as introduced - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 01/25/2021 01:48pm

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.

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A bill for an act
relating to health; establishing an exception to the nursing home licensing and
certification moratorium; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 144A.071,
subdivision 4c.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 144A.071, subdivision 4c, is amended to read:


Subd. 4c.

Exceptions for replacement beds after June 30, 2003.

(a) The commissioner
of health, in coordination with the commissioner of human services, may approve the
renovation, replacement, upgrading, or relocation of a nursing home or boarding care home,
under the following conditions:

(1) to license and certify an 80-bed city-owned facility in Nicollet County to be
constructed on the site of a new city-owned hospital to replace an existing 85-bed facility
attached to a hospital that is also being replaced. The threshold allowed for this project
under section 144A.073 shall be the maximum amount available to pay the additional
medical assistance costs of the new facility;

(2) to license and certify 29 beds to be added to an existing 69-bed facility in St. Louis
County, provided that the 29 beds must be transferred from active or layaway status at an
existing facility in St. Louis County that had 235 beds on April 1, 2003.

The licensed capacity at the 235-bed facility must be reduced to 206 beds, but the payment
rate at that facility shall not be adjusted as a result of this transfer. The operating payment
rate of the facility adding beds after completion of this project shall be the same as it was
on the day prior to the day the beds are licensed and certified. This project shall not proceed
unless it is approved and financed under the provisions of section 144A.073;

(3) to license and certify a new 60-bed facility in Austin, provided that: (i) 45 of the new
beds are transferred from a 45-bed facility in Austin under common ownership that is closed
and 15 of the new beds are transferred from a 182-bed facility in Albert Lea under common
ownership; (ii) the commissioner of human services is authorized by the 2004 legislature
to negotiate budget-neutral planned nursing facility closures; and (iii) money is available
from planned closures of facilities under common ownership to make implementation of
this clause budget-neutral to the state. The bed capacity of the Albert Lea facility shall be
reduced to 167 beds following the transfer. Of the 60 beds at the new facility, 20 beds shall
be used for a special care unit for persons with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias;

(4) to license and certify up to 80 beds transferred from an existing state-owned nursing
facility in Cass County to a new facility located on the grounds of the Ah-Gwah-Ching
campus. The operating cost payment rates for the new facility shall be determined based
on the interim and settle-up payment provisions of section 256R.27 and the reimbursement
provisions of chapter 256R. The property payment rate for the first three years of operation
shall be $35 per day. For subsequent years, the property payment rate of $35 per day shall
be adjusted for inflation as provided in section 256B.434, subdivision 4, paragraph (c), as
long as the facility has a contract under section 256B.434;

(5) to initiate a pilot program to license and certify up to 80 beds transferred from an
existing county-owned nursing facility in Steele County relocated to the site of a new acute
care facility as part of the county's Communities for a Lifetime comprehensive plan to create
innovative responses to the aging of its population. Upon relocation to the new site, the
nursing facility shall delicense 28 beds. The payment rate for external fixed costs for the
new facility shall be increased by an amount as calculated according to items (i) to (v):

(i) compute the estimated decrease in medical assistance residents served by the nursing
facility by multiplying the decrease in licensed beds by the historical percentage of medical
assistance resident days;

(ii) compute the annual savings to the medical assistance program from the delicensure
of 28 beds by multiplying the anticipated decrease in medical assistance residents, determined
in item (i), by the existing facility's weighted average payment rate multiplied by 365;

(iii) compute the anticipated annual costs for community-based services by multiplying
the anticipated decrease in medical assistance residents served by the nursing facility,
determined in item (i), by the average monthly elderly waiver service costs for individuals
in Steele County multiplied by 12;

(iv) subtract the amount in item (iii) from the amount in item (ii);

(v) divide the amount in item (iv) by an amount equal to the relocated nursing facility's
occupancy factor under section 256B.431, subdivision 3f, paragraph (c), multiplied by the
historical percentage of medical assistance resident days; deleted text begin and
deleted text end

(6) to consolidate and relocate nursing facility beds to a new site in Goodhue County
and to integrate these services with other community-based programs and services under a
communities for a lifetime pilot program and comprehensive plan to create innovative
responses to the aging of its population. Two nursing facilities, one for 84 beds and one for
65 beds, in the city of Red Wing licensed on July 1, 2015, shall be consolidated into a newly
renovated 64-bed nursing facility resulting in the delicensure of 85 beds. Notwithstanding
the carryforward of the approval authority in section 144A.073, subdivision 11, the funding
approved in April 2009 by the commissioner of health for a project in Goodhue County
shall not carry forward. The closure of the 85 beds shall not be eligible for a planned closure
rate adjustment under section 256R.40. The construction project permitted in this clause
shall not be eligible for a threshold project rate adjustment under section 256B.434,
subdivision 4f
. The payment rate for external fixed costs for the new facility shall be
increased by an amount as calculated according to items (i) to (vi):

(i) compute the estimated decrease in medical assistance residents served by both nursing
facilities by multiplying the difference between the occupied beds of the two nursing facilities
for the reporting year ending September 30, 2009, and the projected occupancy of the facility
at 95 percent occupancy by the historical percentage of medical assistance resident days;

(ii) compute the annual savings to the medical assistance program from the delicensure
by multiplying the anticipated decrease in the medical assistance residents, determined in
item (i), by the hospital-owned nursing facility weighted average payment rate multiplied
by 365;

(iii) compute the anticipated annual costs for community-based services by multiplying
the anticipated decrease in medical assistance residents served by the facilities, determined
in item (i), by the average monthly elderly waiver service costs for individuals in Goodhue
County multiplied by 12;

(iv) subtract the amount in item (iii) from the amount in item (ii);

(v) multiply the amount in item (iv) by 57.2 percent; and

(vi) divide the difference of the amount in item (iv) and the amount in item (v) by an
amount equal to the relocated nursing facility's occupancy factor under section 256B.431,
subdivision 3f, paragraph (c), multiplied by the historical percentage of medical assistance
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new text begin (7) to license and certify 168 beds in an existing facility in the city of New Hope that
had 258 beds as of June 1, 2020. The facility must complete construction of an addition to
accommodate additional private rooms as well as improved dining, activities, and support
spaces and other improvements. The provider may also remove 54 beds from layaway status
and relocate them to a newly constructed facility in the city of Corcoran. Upon completion
of construction, the facilities covered by this clause shall receive property rates calculated
under chapter 256R
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(b) Projects approved under this subdivision shall be treated in a manner equivalent to
projects approved under subdivision 4a.