HF 5130

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 05/11/2026 10:00 a.m.

A bill for an act
relating to human services; clarifying the calculation of border city nursing facility
rate adjustments; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 256R.481.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 256R.481, is amended to read:

256R.481 RATE ADJUSTMENTS FOR BORDER CITY FACILITIES.

(a) The commissioner shall allow each nonprofit nursing facility located within the
boundaries of the city of Breckenridge or Moorhead prior to January 1, 2015, to apply once
annually for a rate add-on to the facility's external fixed costs payment rate.

(b) A facility seeking an add-on to its external fixed costs payment rate under this section
must apply annually to the commissioner to receive the add-on. A facility must submit the
application within 60 calendar days of the effective date of any add-on under this section.
The commissioner may waive the deadlines required by this paragraph under extraordinary
circumstances.

(c) The commissioner shall provide the add-on to each eligible facility that applies by
the application deadline.

(d) The add-on to the external fixed costs payment rate is the difference on January 1
of the median total payment rate for deleted text begin case mix classification PA1 deleted text end new text begin the lowest case mix
classification in effect new text end of the nonprofit facilities located in an adjacent city in another state
and in cities contiguous to the adjacent city minus the eligible nursing facility's total payment
rate for deleted text begin case mix classification PA1 deleted text end new text begin the lowest case mix classification in effect new text end as determined
under section 256R.22, subdivision 4.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective retroactively from January 1, 2026, and
applies to rate years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
new text end