1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; providing a rate increase for a nursing facility in 
1.3 	Minneapolis; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 
1.4 	256B.441, by adding a subdivision.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 256B.441, is amended by adding a 
1.7 	subdivision to read:
1.8 		Subd. 59.Rate increase effective October 1, 2008; Minneapolis. Effective 
1.9 	October 1, 2008, operating payment rates for a nursing facility in Minneapolis reimbursed 
1.10 	under this section that is a low-cost provider of nursing facility services, licensed as a 
1.11 	boarding care facility, and had 60 certified nursing beds as of January 1, 2008, shall be 
1.12 	increased to be equal, for a RUG's rate with a weight of 1.00, to the median operating 
1.13 	payment rate for all nursing facilities in peer group one for the same RUG's weight. The 
1.14 	percentage of the operating payment rate for the facility to be case-mix adjusted is equal 
1.15 	to the percentage that is case-mix adjusted in the facility's September 30, 2008, operating 
1.16 	payment rate. The calculation of the median of peer group one operating payment rates 
1.17 	and the calculation of the rate increases under this subdivision shall be based on operating 
1.18 	payment rates determined under subdivision 55.

1.19 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.20 	$....... is appropriated in fiscal year 2009 from the general fund to the commissioner 
1.21 	of human services for the purposes of section 1.