2025 Minnesota Statutes

256R.01 GENERAL.

Subdivision 1.Payment rates.

Payment rates paid to any nursing facility receiving medical assistance payments must be those rates established pursuant to this chapter and rules adopted under it.

Subd. 1a.Payment rates for nursing care provided to a patient in a swing bed.

Payment rates paid to any hospital for nursing care provided to a patient in a swing bed must be those rates established pursuant section 256B.0625, subdivision 2b.

[See Note.]

Subd. 2.Authority of commissioner.

The commissioner shall establish, by rule, procedures for determining rates for care of residents of nursing facilities which qualify as vendors of medical assistance, and for implementing the provisions of this chapter and section 256B.50. The procedures shall specify the costs that are allowable for establishing payment rates through medical assistance.

Subd. 3.Compliance with federal requirements.

If any provision of this chapter and section 256B.50 is determined by the United States government to be in conflict with existing or future requirements of the United States government with respect to federal participation in medical assistance, the federal requirements shall prevail.

History:

2016 c 99 art 1 s 1; 1Sp2025 c 3 art 1 s 88

NOTE: Subdivision 1a, as added by Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 3, article 1, section 88, is effective upon federal approval. The commissioners of health and human services shall inform the revisor of statutes when federal approval is obtained. Laws 2025, First Special Session chapter 3, article 1, section 88, the effective date.