2007 Minnesota Statutes

256B.199 PAYMENTS REPORTED BY GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES.
    (a) Effective July 1, 2007, the commissioner shall apply for federal matching funds for the
expenditures in paragraphs (b) and (c).
    (b) The commissioner shall apply for federal matching funds for certified public expenditures
as follows:
    (1) Hennepin County, Hennepin County Medical Center, Ramsey County, Regions Hospital,
the University of Minnesota, and Fairview-University Medical Center shall report quarterly to the
commissioner beginning June 1, 2007, payments made during the second previous quarter that
may qualify for reimbursement under federal law;
     (2) based on these reports, the commissioner shall apply for federal matching funds. These
funds are appropriated to the commissioner for the payments under section 256.969, subdivision
27 ; and
     (3) by May 1 of each year, beginning May 1, 2007, the commissioner shall inform the
nonstate entities listed in paragraph (a) of the amount of federal disproportionate share hospital
payment money expected to be available in the current federal fiscal year.
    (c) The commissioner shall apply for federal matching funds for general assistance medical
care expenditures as follows:
    (1) for hospital services occurring on or after July 1, 2007, general assistance medical
care expenditures for fee-for-service inpatient and outpatient hospital payments made by the
department shall be used to apply for federal matching funds, except as limited below:
    (i) only those general assistance medical care expenditures made to an individual hospital
that would not cause the hospital to exceed its individual hospital limits under section 1923 of the
Social Security Act may be considered; and
    (ii) general assistance medical care expenditures may be considered only to the extent of
Minnesota's aggregate allotment under section 1923 of the Social Security Act; and
    (2) all hospitals must provide any necessary expenditure, cost, and revenue information
required by the commissioner as necessary for purposes of obtaining federal Medicaid matching
funds for general assistance medical care expenditures.
History: 1Sp2005 c 4 art 8 s 50; 2007 c 147 art 5 s 13