1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to medical assistance; providing a rate 
  1.3             increase for a nursing home in Hennepin county; 
  1.4             appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2000, 
  1.5             section 256B.434, by adding a subdivision. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 256B.434, is 
  1.8   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 4c.  [FACILITY RATE INCREASES EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 
  1.10  2001.] For the rate year beginning July 1, 2001, a nursing 
  1.11  facility in Hennepin county licensed for 302 beds shall receive 
  1.12  an increase of 29 cents in each case mix payment rate to correct 
  1.13  an error in the cost-reporting system that occurred prior to the 
  1.14  date that the facility entered the alternative payment 
  1.15  demonstration project.  The increases under this subdivision 
  1.16  shall be added following the determination under this chapter of 
  1.17  the payment rate for the rate year beginning July 1, 2001, and 
  1.18  shall be included in the facility's total payment rates for the 
  1.19  purposes of determining future rates under this section or any 
  1.20  other section. 
  1.21     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.22     $....... is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  1.23  commissioner of human services for the biennium beginning July 
  1.24  1, 2001, for the purposes of section 1.