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SF 1475

as introduced - 85th Legislature (2007 - 2008) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

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

Current Version - as introduced

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A bill for an act
relating to health; providing for an exception to the bed moratorium; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 144A.071, subdivision 4c.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, 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; deleted text begin and
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(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 Minnesota Rules,
part 9549.0057, and the reimbursement provisions of section 256B.431. 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.434deleted text begin .deleted text end new text begin ; and
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new text begin (5) to license and certify 180 beds transferred from an existing facility in
Minneapolis to a new facility in Robbinsdale; provided that the beds are transferred from a
219-bed facility under common ownership that shall be closed following the transfer. The
operating payment rate of the new facility after completion of this project shall be adjusted
upward by $35 per day and the property payment rate shall be $34.049 per day.
new text end

(b) Projects approved under this subdivision shall be treated in a manner equivalent
to projects approved under subdivision 4a.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
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