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256B.495 NURSING FACILITY RECEIVERSHIP FEES.
    Subdivision 1. Payment of receivership fees. The commissioner in consultation with
the commissioner of health may establish a receivership fee that exceeds a nursing facility
payment rate when the commissioner of health determines a nursing facility is subject to the
receivership provisions under section 144A.14 or 144A.15. In establishing the receivership fee,
the commissioner must reduce the receiver's requested receivership fee by amounts that the
commissioner determines are included in the nursing facility's payment rate and that can be used
to cover part or all of the receivership fee. Amounts that can be used to reduce the receivership
fee shall be determined by reallocating facility staff or costs that were formerly paid by the
nursing facility before the receivership and are no longer required to be paid. The amounts may
include any efficiency incentive, allowance, and other amounts not specifically required to be
paid for expenditures of the nursing facility.
If the receivership fee cannot be covered by amounts in the nursing facility's payment rate, a
receivership fee shall be set according to paragraphs (a) and (b) and payment shall be according to
paragraphs (c) to (e).
(a) The receivership fee per diem shall be determined by dividing the annual receivership fee
by the nursing facility's resident days from the most recent cost report for which the commissioner
has established a payment rate or the estimated resident days in the projected receivership fee
period.
(b) The receivership fee per diem shall be added to the nursing facility's payment rate.
(c) Notification of the payment rate increase must meet the requirements of section 256B.47,
subdivision 2
.
(d) The payment rate in paragraph (b) for a nursing facility shall be effective the first day of
the month following the receiver's compliance with the notice conditions in paragraph (c).
(e) The commissioner may elect to make a lump sum payment of a portion of the receivership
fee to the receiver or managing agent. In this case, the commissioner and the receiver or managing
agent shall agree to a repayment plan. Regardless of whether the commissioner makes a lump sum
payment under this paragraph, the provisions of paragraphs (a) to (d) and subdivision 2 also apply.
    Subd. 1a. Receivership payment rate adjustment. Upon receiving a recommendation from
the commissioner of health for a review of rates under section 144A.154, the commissioner may
grant an adjustment to the nursing home's payment rate. The commissioner shall review the
recommendation of the commissioner of health, together with the nursing home's cost report to
determine whether or not the deficiency or need can be corrected or met by reallocating nursing
home staff, costs, revenues, or other resources including any investments, efficiency incentives, or
allowances. If the commissioner determines that the deficiency cannot be corrected or the need
cannot be met, the commissioner shall determine the payment rate adjustment by dividing the
additional annual costs established during the commissioner's review by the nursing home's actual
resident days from the most recent desk-audited cost report.
    Subd. 2. Deduction of additional receivership payments. If the commissioner has
established a receivership fee per diem for a nursing facility in receivership under subdivision 1 or
a payment rate adjustment under subdivision 1a, the commissioner must deduct these receivership
payments according to paragraphs (a) to (c).
(a) The total receivership fee payments shall be the receivership per diem plus the payment
rate adjustment multiplied by the number of resident days for the period of the receivership. If
actual resident days for the receivership period are not made available within two weeks of the
commissioner's written request, the commissioner shall compute the resident days by prorating
the facility's resident days based on the number of calendar days from each portion of the nursing
facility's reporting years covered by the receivership period.
(b) The amount determined in paragraph (a) must be divided by the nursing facility's resident
days for the reporting year in which the receivership period ends.
(c) The per diem amount in paragraph (b) shall be subtracted from the nursing facility's
operating cost payment rate for the rate year following the reporting year in which the receivership
period ends. This provision applies whether or not there is a sale or transfer of the nursing facility,
unless the provisions of subdivision 5 apply.
    Subd. 3.[Repealed, 1992 c 513 art 8 s 59]
    Subd. 4. Downsizing and closing nursing facilities. (a) If the nursing facility is subject to a
downsizing to closure process during the period of receivership, the commissioner may reestablish
the nursing facility's payment rate. The payment rate shall be established based on the nursing
facility's budgeted operating costs, the receivership property related costs, and the management
fee costs for the receivership period divided by the facility's estimated resident days for the same
period. The commissioner of health and the commissioner shall make every effort to first facilitate
the transfer of private paying residents to alternate service sites prior to the effective date of the
payment rate. The cost limits and the case mix provisions in the rate setting system shall not apply
during the portion of the receivership period over which the nursing facility downsizes to closure.
(b) Any payment rate adjustment under this subdivision must meet the conditions in section
256B.47, subdivision 2, and shall remain in effect until the receivership ends, or until another
date the commissioner sets.
    Subd. 5. Sale or transfer of a nursing facility in receivership after closure. (a) Upon the
subsequent sale or transfer of a nursing facility in receivership, the commissioner must recover
any amounts paid through payment rate adjustments under subdivision 4 which exceed the normal
cost of operating the nursing facility. Examples of costs in excess of the normal cost of operating
the nursing facility include the managing agent's fee, directly identifiable costs of the managing
agent, bonuses paid to employees for their continued employment during the downsizing to
closure of the nursing facility, prereceivership expenditures paid by the receiver, additional
professional services such as accountants, psychologists, and dietitians, and other similar costs
incurred by the receiver to complete receivership. The buyer or transferee shall repay this amount
to the commissioner within 60 days after the commissioner notifies the buyer or transferee of the
obligation to repay. The buyer or transferee must also repay the private-pay resident the amount
the private-pay resident paid through payment rate adjustment.
(b) If a nursing facility with payment rates subject to subdivision 4, paragraph (a), is
later sold while the nursing facility is in receivership, the payment rates in effect prior to the
receivership shall be the new owner's payment rates. Those payment rates shall continue to be
in effect until the rate year following the reporting period ending on September 30 for the new
owner. The reporting period shall, whenever possible, be at least five consecutive months. If the
reporting period is less than five months but more than three months, the nursing facility's resident
days for the last two months of the reporting period must be annualized over the reporting period
for the purpose of computing the payment rate for the rate year following the reporting period.
History: 1989 c 282 art 3 s 83; 1990 c 568 art 3 s 77; 1992 c 513 art 7 s 115-119,136

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