2006 Minnesota Statutes

256B.41 INTENT.
    Subdivision 1. Authority. 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 section and sections 256B.421, 256B.431,
256B.432, 256B.433, 256B.47, 256B.48, 256B.50, and 256B.502. The procedures shall specify
the costs that are allowable for establishing payment rates through medical assistance.
    Subd. 2. Federal requirements. If any provision of this section and sections 256B.421,
256B.431, 256B.432, 256B.433, 256B.47, 256B.48, 256B.50, and 256B.502, 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.
    Subd. 3. 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.
History: 1976 c 282 s 1; 1983 c 199 s 10; 1Sp1985 c 9 art 2 s 47; 1992 c 513 art 7 s
84,85,136; 1998 c 407 art 4 s 41