2E Relating to human services; providing long term care rate adjustments for nursing facility operating costs under the alternative payment demonstration system; requiring the commissioner of human services to provide certain nursing facilities and ICF/MR facilities a health insurance per diem to the total operating payment rate for employee purchases of private sector health insurance coverage, limitation, specifying certain reporting requirements; prohibiting the commissioner from rebasing nursing facility payment rates without specific authority; increasing the total operating payment rate for ICF/MR facilities; modifying certain MinnesotaCare eligibility requirements relating to employer subsidized insurance; modifying certain prior provider rate increases and use requirements; requiring the commissioner to provide a rate adjustment for employee health insurance costs for the providers of the services, specifying certain county contract modification requirements; requiring the legislature to hold committee hearings to allow for recommendations for rebasing methods and objectives; requiring the commissioners of human services and health to consult with consumers, nursing facility providers and nursing facility employees on new and emerging staff positions and titles, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of human services in consultation with long term care providers and employees and stakeholders to determine the cost of a rate increase to long term care employers for use in purchasing employee health insurance in the private insurance market, specifying certain duties and requiring report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of human services to use previously appropriated money for the phase-in of rebased operating payment rates; repealing a certain provision relating to phase in of rebased operating cost payment rates and hold harmless under the value based nursing facility reimbursement system
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