HF 4187

as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 03/04/2024 04:37pm

A bill for an act
relating to human services; specifying an alternate hospital inpatient payment rate;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 256.969, by adding a subdivision.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 256.969, is amended by adding a subdivision
to read:

new text begin Subd. 2g. new text end

new text begin Alternate inpatient payment rate. new text end

new text begin Effective January 1, 2024, in any year in
which a hospital discharge is included in the federally required disproportionate share
hospital (DSH) audit where a patient has resided in a children's hospital for over ten years,
the commissioner shall compute an alternate inpatient rate for the children's hospital. The
alternate payment rate shall be the rate computed under this section increased by an amount
equal to 99 percent of what the DSH payment would have been under subdivision 2e or 9,
paragraph (d), clause (1), had the discharge been excluded. In any rate year in which payment
to a children's hospital is made using this alternate payment rate, no payments shall be made
to the hospital under subdivision 2e or 9.
new text end