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256.969 PAYMENT RATES.
    Subdivision 1. Hospital cost index. (a) The hospital cost index shall be the change in
the Consumer Price Index-All Items (United States city average) (CPI-U) forecasted by Data
Resources, Inc. The commissioner shall use the indices as forecasted in the third quarter of the
calendar year prior to the rate year. The hospital cost index may be used to adjust the base year
operating payment rate through the rate year on an annually compounded basis.
(b) For fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 1993, the commissioner of human services
shall not provide automatic annual inflation adjustments for hospital payment rates under medical
assistance, nor under general assistance medical care, except that the inflation adjustments under
paragraph (a) for medical assistance, excluding general assistance medical care, shall apply
through calendar year 2001. The index for calendar year 2000 shall be reduced 2.5 percentage
points to recover overprojections of the index from 1994 to 1996. The commissioner of finance
shall include as a budget change request in each biennial detailed expenditure budget submitted to
the legislature under section 16A.11 annual adjustments in hospital payment rates under medical
assistance and general assistance medical care, based upon the hospital cost index.
    Subd. 2. Diagnostic categories. The commissioner shall use to the extent possible
existing diagnostic classification systems, including the system used by the Medicare program
to determine the relative values of inpatient services and case mix indices. The commissioner
may combine diagnostic classifications into diagnostic categories and may establish separate
categories and numbers of categories based on program eligibility or hospital peer group. Relative
values shall be recalculated when the base year is changed. Relative value determinations shall
include paid claims for admissions during each hospital's base year. The commissioner may
extend the time period forward to obtain sufficiently valid information to establish relative values.
Relative value determinations shall not include property cost data, Medicare crossover data, and
data on admissions that are paid a per day transfer rate under subdivision 14. The computation
of the base year cost per admission must include identified outlier cases and their weighted
costs up to the point that they become outlier cases, but must exclude costs recognized in outlier
payments beyond that point. The commissioner may recategorize the diagnostic classifications
and recalculate relative values and case mix indices to reflect actual hospital practices, the specific
character of specialty hospitals, or to reduce variances within the diagnostic categories after notice
in the State Register and a 30-day comment period.
    Subd. 2a.[Repealed, 1989 c 282 art 3 s 98]
    Subd. 2b. Operating payment rates. In determining operating payment rates for admissions
occurring on or after the rate year beginning January 1, 1991, and every two years after, or
more frequently as determined by the commissioner, the commissioner shall obtain operating
data from an updated base year and establish operating payment rates per admission for each
hospital based on the cost-finding methods and allowable costs of the Medicare program in effect
during the base year. Rates under the general assistance medical care, medical assistance, and
MinnesotaCare programs shall not be rebased to more current data on January 1, 1997, and
January 1, 2005. The base year operating payment rate per admission is standardized by the
case mix index and adjusted by the hospital cost index, relative values, and disproportionate
population adjustment. The cost and charge data used to establish operating rates shall only reflect
inpatient services covered by medical assistance and shall not include property cost information
and costs recognized in outlier payments.
    Subd. 2c. Property payment rates. For each hospital's first two consecutive fiscal years
beginning on or after July 1, 1988, the commissioner shall limit the annual increase in property
payment rates for depreciation, rents and leases, and interest expense to the annual growth in
the hospital cost index derived from the methodology in effect on the day before July 1, 1989.
When computing budgeted and settlement property payment rates, the commissioner shall use
the annual increase in the hospital cost index forecasted by Data Resources, Inc., consistent with
the quarter of the hospital's fiscal year end. For admissions occurring on or after the rate year
beginning January 1, 1991, the commissioner shall obtain property data from an updated base
year and establish property payment rates per admission for each hospital. Property payment rates
shall be derived from data from the same base year that is used to establish operating payment
rates. The property information shall include cost categories not subject to the hospital cost index
and shall reflect the cost-finding methods and allowable costs of the Medicare program. The base
year property payment rates shall be adjusted for increases in the property cost by increasing the
base year property payment rate 85 percent of the percentage change from the base year through
the year for which a Medicare cost report has been submitted to the Medicare program and filed
with the department by the October 1 before the rate year. The property rates shall only reflect
inpatient services covered by medical assistance. The commissioner shall adjust rates for the rate
year beginning January 1, 1991, to ensure that all hospitals are subject to the hospital cost index
limitation for two complete years.
    Subd. 3.[Repealed, 1989 c 282 art 3 s 98]
    Subd. 3a. Payments. (a) Acute care hospital billings under the medical assistance program
must not be submitted until the recipient is discharged. However, the commissioner shall establish
monthly interim payments for inpatient hospitals that have individual patient lengths of stay over
30 days regardless of diagnostic category. Except as provided in section 256.9693, medical
assistance reimbursement for treatment of mental illness shall be reimbursed based on diagnostic
classifications. Individual hospital payments established under this section and sections 256.9685,
256.9686, and 256.9695, in addition to third party and recipient liability, for discharges occurring
during the rate year shall not exceed, in aggregate, the charges for the medical assistance covered
inpatient services paid for the same period of time to the hospital. This payment limitation shall
be calculated separately for medical assistance and general assistance medical care services. The
limitation on general assistance medical care shall be effective for admissions occurring on or
after July 1, 1991. Services that have rates established under subdivision 11 or 12, must be limited
separately from other services. After consulting with the affected hospitals, the commissioner
may consider related hospitals one entity and may merge the payment rates while maintaining
separate provider numbers. The operating and property base rates per admission or per day
shall be derived from the best Medicare and claims data available when rates are established.
The commissioner shall determine the best Medicare and claims data, taking into consideration
variables of recency of the data, audit disposition, settlement status, and the ability to set rates in
a timely manner. The commissioner shall notify hospitals of payment rates by December 1 of
the year preceding the rate year. The rate setting data must reflect the admissions data used to
establish relative values. Base year changes from 1981 to the base year established for the rate
year beginning January 1, 1991, and for subsequent rate years, shall not be limited to the limits
ending June 30, 1987, on the maximum rate of increase under subdivision 1. The commissioner
may adjust base year cost, relative value, and case mix index data to exclude the costs of services
that have been discontinued by the October 1 of the year preceding the rate year or that are paid
separately from inpatient services. Inpatient stays that encompass portions of two or more rate
years shall have payments established based on payment rates in effect at the time of admission
unless the date of admission preceded the rate year in effect by six months or more. In this case,
operating payment rates for services rendered during the rate year in effect and established based
on the date of admission shall be adjusted to the rate year in effect by the hospital cost index.
(b) For fee-for-service admissions occurring on or after July 1, 2002, the total payment,
before third-party liability and spenddown, made to hospitals for inpatient services is reduced
by .5 percent from the current statutory rates.
(c) In addition to the reduction in paragraph (b), the total payment for fee-for-service
admissions occurring on or after July 1, 2003, made to hospitals for inpatient services before
third-party liability and spenddown, is reduced five percent from the current statutory rates.
Mental health services within diagnosis related groups 424 to 432, and facilities defined under
subdivision 16 are excluded from this paragraph.
(d) In addition to the reduction in paragraphs (b) and (c), the total payment for fee-for-service
admissions occurring on or after July 1, 2005, made to hospitals for inpatient services before
third-party liability and spenddown, is reduced 6.0 percent from the current statutory rates.
Mental health services within diagnosis related groups 424 to 432 and facilities defined under
subdivision 16 are excluded from this paragraph. Notwithstanding section 256.9686, subdivision
7
, for purposes of this paragraph, medical assistance does not include general assistance medical
care. Payments made to managed care plans shall be reduced for services provided on or after
January 1, 2006, to reflect this reduction.
    Subd. 4.[Repealed, 1989 c 282 art 3 s 98]
    Subd. 4a. Reports. If, under this section or section 256.9685, 256.9686, or 256.9695, a
hospital is required to report information to the commissioner by a specified date, the hospital
must report the information on time. If the hospital does not report the information on time, the
commissioner may determine the information that will be used and may disregard the information
that is reported late. If the Medicare program does not require or does not audit information that is
needed to establish medical assistance rates, the commissioner may, after consulting the affected
hospitals, require reports to be provided, in a format specified by the commissioner, that are
based on allowable costs and cost-finding methods of the Medicare program in effect during the
base year. The commissioner may require any information that is necessary to implement this
section and sections 256.9685, 256.9686, and 256.9695 to be provided by a hospital within
a reasonable time period.
    Subd. 5.[Repealed, 1989 c 282 art 3 s 98]
    Subd. 5a. Audits and adjustments. Inpatient hospital rates and payments must be
established under this section and sections 256.9685, 256.9686, and 256.9695. The commissioner
may adjust rates and payments based on the findings of audits of payments to hospitals, hospital
billings, costs, statistical information, charges, or patient records performed by the commissioner
or the Medicare program that identify billings, costs, statistical information, or charges for
services that were not delivered, never ordered, in excess of limits, not covered by the medical
assistance program, paid separately from rates established under this section and sections
256.9685, 256.9686, and 256.9695, or for charges that are not consistent with other payor billings.
Charges to the medical assistance program must be less than or equal to charges to the general
public. Charges to the medical assistance program must not exceed the lowest charge to any other
payor. The audit findings may be based on a statistically valid sample of hospital information that
is needed to complete the audit. If the information the commissioner uses to establish rates or
payments is not audited by the Medicare program, the commissioner may require an audit using
Medicare principles and may adjust rates and payments to reflect any subsequent audit.
    Subd. 6.[Repealed, 1989 c 282 art 3 s 98]
    Subd. 6a. Special considerations. In determining the payment rates, the commissioner shall
consider whether the circumstances in subdivisions 7 to 14 exist.
    Subd. 7.[Repealed, 1992 c 513 art 7 s 135]
    Subd. 8. Unusual length of stay experience. The commissioner shall establish day outlier
thresholds for each diagnostic category established under subdivision 2 at two standard deviations
beyond the mean length of stay. Payment for the days beyond the outlier threshold shall be in
addition to the operating and property payment rates per admission established under subdivisions
2, 2b, and 2c. Payment for outliers shall be at 70 percent of the allowable operating cost, after
adjustment by the case mix index, hospital cost index, relative values and the disproportionate
population adjustment. The outlier threshold for neonatal and burn diagnostic categories shall be
established at one standard deviation beyond the mean length of stay, and payment shall be at 90
percent of allowable operating cost calculated in the same manner as other outliers. A hospital
may choose an alternative to the 70 percent outlier payment that is at a minimum of 60 percent
and a maximum of 80 percent if the commissioner is notified in writing of the request by October
1 of the year preceding the rate year. The chosen percentage applies to all diagnostic categories
except burns and neonates. The percentage of allowable cost that is unrecognized by the outlier
payment shall be added back to the base year operating payment rate per admission.
    Subd. 8a. Unusual short length of stay. Except as provided in subdivision 13, for
admissions occurring on or after July 1, 1995, payment shall be determined as follows and shall
be included in the base year for rate setting purposes.
(1) For an admission that is categorized to a neonatal diagnostic related group in which the
length of stay is less than 50 percent of the average length of stay for the category in the base
year and the patient at admission is equal to or greater than the age of one, payments shall be
established according to the methods of subdivision 14.
(2) For an admission that is categorized to a diagnostic category that includes neonatal
respiratory distress syndrome, the hospital must have a level II or level III nursery and the patient
must receive treatment in that unit or payment will be made without regard to the syndrome
condition.
    Subd. 8b. Admissions for persons who apply during hospitalization. For admissions for
individuals under section 256D.03, subdivision 3, paragraph (a), clause (2), that occur before the
date of eligibility, payment for the days that the patient is eligible shall be established according
to the methods of subdivision 14.
    Subd. 9. Disproportionate numbers of low-income patients served. (a) For admissions
occurring on or after October 1, 1992, through December 31, 1992, the medical assistance
disproportionate population adjustment shall comply with federal law and shall be paid to
a hospital, excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian Health
Service, with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate in excess of the arithmetic mean. The
adjustment must be determined as follows:
    (1) for a hospital with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate above the arithmetic
mean for all hospitals excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian
Health Service but less than or equal to one standard deviation above the mean, the adjustment
must be determined by multiplying the total of the operating and property payment rates by
the difference between the hospital's actual medical assistance inpatient utilization rate and the
arithmetic mean for all hospitals excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal
Indian Health Service; and
    (2) for a hospital with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate above one standard
deviation above the mean, the adjustment must be determined by multiplying the adjustment that
would be determined under clause (1) for that hospital by 1.1. If federal matching funds are not
available for all adjustments under this subdivision, the commissioner shall reduce payments on a
pro rata basis so that all adjustments qualify for federal match. The commissioner may establish
a separate disproportionate population operating payment rate adjustment under the general
assistance medical care program. For purposes of this subdivision medical assistance does not
include general assistance medical care. The commissioner shall report annually on the number
of hospitals likely to receive the adjustment authorized by this paragraph. The commissioner
shall specifically report on the adjustments received by public hospitals and public hospital
corporations located in cities of the first class.
    (b) For admissions occurring on or after July 1, 1993, the medical assistance disproportionate
population adjustment shall comply with federal law and shall be paid to a hospital, excluding
regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian Health Service, with a medical
assistance inpatient utilization rate in excess of the arithmetic mean. The adjustment must
be determined as follows:
    (1) for a hospital with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate above the arithmetic
mean for all hospitals excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian
Health Service but less than or equal to one standard deviation above the mean, the adjustment
must be determined by multiplying the total of the operating and property payment rates by
the difference between the hospital's actual medical assistance inpatient utilization rate and the
arithmetic mean for all hospitals excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal
Indian Health Service;
    (2) for a hospital with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate above one standard
deviation above the mean, the adjustment must be determined by multiplying the adjustment that
would be determined under clause (1) for that hospital by 1.1. The commissioner may establish
a separate disproportionate population operating payment rate adjustment under the general
assistance medical care program. For purposes of this subdivision, medical assistance does not
include general assistance medical care. The commissioner shall report annually on the number
of hospitals likely to receive the adjustment authorized by this paragraph. The commissioner
shall specifically report on the adjustments received by public hospitals and public hospital
corporations located in cities of the first class;
    (3) for a hospital that had medical assistance fee-for-service payment volume during calendar
year 1991 in excess of 13 percent of total medical assistance fee-for-service payment volume, a
medical assistance disproportionate population adjustment shall be paid in addition to any other
disproportionate payment due under this subdivision as follows: $1,515,000 due on the 15th
of each month after noon, beginning July 15, 1995. For a hospital that had medical assistance
fee-for-service payment volume during calendar year 1991 in excess of eight percent of total
medical assistance fee-for-service payment volume and was the primary hospital affiliated with
the University of Minnesota, a medical assistance disproportionate population adjustment shall be
paid in addition to any other disproportionate payment due under this subdivision as follows:
$505,000 due on the 15th of each month after noon, beginning July 15, 1995; and
    (4) effective August 1, 2005, the payments in paragraph (b), clause (3), shall be reduced to
zero.
    (c) The commissioner shall adjust rates paid to a health maintenance organization under
contract with the commissioner to reflect rate increases provided in paragraph (b), clauses (1)
and (2), on a nondiscounted hospital-specific basis but shall not adjust those rates to reflect
payments provided in clause (3).
    (d) If federal matching funds are not available for all adjustments under paragraph (b), the
commissioner shall reduce payments under paragraph (b), clauses (1) and (2), on a pro rata basis
so that all adjustments under paragraph (b) qualify for federal match.
    (e) For purposes of this subdivision, medical assistance does not include general assistance
medical care.
    (f) For hospital services occurring on or after July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2007:
    (1) general assistance medical care expenditures for fee-for-service inpatient and outpatient
hospital payments made by the department shall be considered Medicaid disproportionate share
hospital payments, except as limited below:
     (i) only the portion of Minnesota's disproportionate share hospital allotment under section
1923(f) of the Social Security Act that is not spent on the disproportionate population adjustments
in paragraph (b), clauses (1) and (2), may be used for general assistance medical care expenditures;
     (ii) only those general assistance medical care expenditures made to hospitals that qualify for
disproportionate share payments under section 1923 of the Social Security Act and the Medicaid
state plan may be considered disproportionate share hospital payments;
     (iii) 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
     (iv) 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.
All hospitals and prepaid health plans participating in general assistance medical care 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; and
    (2) certified public expenditures made by Hennepin County Medical Center shall be
considered Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments. Hennepin County and Hennepin
County Medical Center shall report by June 15, 2007, on payments made beginning July 1, 2005,
or another date specified by the commissioner, that may qualify for reimbursement under federal
law. Based on these reports, the commissioner shall apply for federal matching funds.
    (g) Upon federal approval of the related state plan amendment, paragraph (f) is effective
retroactively from July 1, 2005, or the earliest effective date approved by the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services.
    Subd. 9a. Disproportionate population adjustments until July 1, 1993. For admissions
occurring between January 1, 1993 and June 30, 1993, the adjustment under this subdivision shall
be paid to a hospital, excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian
Health Service, with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate in excess of one standard
deviation above the arithmetic mean. The adjustment must be determined by multiplying the
total of the operating and property payment rates by the difference between the hospital's actual
medical assistance inpatient utilization rate and the arithmetic mean for all hospitals excluding
regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian Health Service, and the result must
be multiplied by 1.1.
The provisions of this paragraph are effective only if federal matching funds are not available
for all adjustments under this subdivision and it is necessary to implement ratable reductions
under subdivision 9.
    Subd. 9b. Implementation of ratable reductions. Notwithstanding the provisions in
subdivision 9, any ratable reductions required under that subdivision or subdivision 9a for fiscal
year 1993 shall be implemented as follows:
(1) no ratable reductions shall be applied to admissions occurring between October 1, 1992,
and December 31, 1992; and
(2) sufficient ratable reductions shall be taken from hospitals receiving a payment under
subdivision 9a for admissions occurring between January 1, 1993, and June 30, 1993, to ensure
that all state payments under subdivisions 9 and 9a during federal fiscal year 1993 qualify for
federal match.
    Subd. 10. Separate billing by certified registered nurse anesthetists. Hospitals may
exclude certified registered nurse anesthetist costs from the operating payment rate as allowed by
section 256B.0625, subdivision 11. To be eligible, a hospital must notify the commissioner in
writing by October 1 of even-numbered years to exclude certified registered nurse anesthetist
costs. The hospital must agree that all hospital claims for the cost and charges of certified
registered nurse anesthetist services will not be included as part of the rates for inpatient services
provided during the rate year. In this case, the operating payment rate shall be adjusted to exclude
the cost of certified registered nurse anesthetist services.
For admissions occurring on or after July 1, 1991, and until the expiration date of section
256.9695, subdivision 3, services of certified registered nurse anesthetists provided on an inpatient
basis may be paid as allowed by section 256B.0625, subdivision 11, when the hospital's base year
did not include the cost of these services. To be eligible, a hospital must notify the commissioner
in writing by July 1, 1991, of the request and must comply with all other requirements of this
subdivision.
    Subd. 11. Special rates. The commissioner may establish special rate-setting methodologies,
including a per day operating and property payment system, for hospice, ventilator dependent,
and other services on a hospital and recipient specific basis taking into consideration such
variables as federal designation, program size, and admission from a medical assistance waiver
or home care program. The data and rate calculation method shall conform to the requirements
of subdivision 13, except that rates shall not be standardized by the case mix index or adjusted
by relative values and hospice rates shall not exceed the amount allowed under federal law.
Rates and payments established under this subdivision must meet the requirements of section
256.9685, subdivisions 1 and 2. The cost and charges used to establish rates shall only reflect
inpatient medical assistance covered services. Hospital and claims data that are used to establish
rates under this subdivision shall not be used to establish payments or relative values under
subdivisions 2, 2b, 2c, 3a, 4a, 5a, and 7 to 14.
    Subd. 12. Rehabilitation distinct parts. Units of hospitals that are recognized as
rehabilitation distinct parts by the Medicare program shall have separate provider numbers under
the medical assistance program for rate establishment and billing purposes only. These units shall
also have operating and property payment rates and the disproportionate population adjustment,
if allowed by federal law, established separately from other inpatient hospital services. The
commissioner may establish separate relative values under subdivision 2 for rehabilitation
hospitals and distinct parts as defined by the Medicare program. For individual hospitals that did
not have separate medical assistance rehabilitation provider numbers or rehabilitation distinct
parts in the base year, hospitals shall provide the information needed to separate rehabilitation
distinct part cost and claims data from other inpatient service data.
    Subd. 13. Neonatal transfers. For admissions occurring on or after July 1, 1989, neonatal
diagnostic category transfers shall have operating and property payment rates established at
receiving hospitals which have neonatal intensive care units on a per day payment system that
is based on the cost finding methods and allowable costs of the Medicare program during the
base year. Other neonatal diagnostic category transfers shall have rates established according
to subdivision 14. The rate per day for the neonatal service setting within the hospital shall
be determined by dividing base year neonatal allowable costs by neonatal patient days. The
operating payment rate portion of the rate shall be adjusted by the hospital cost index and the
disproportionate population adjustment. For admissions occurring after the transition period
specified in section 256.9695, subdivision 3, the operating payment rate portion of the rate shall
be standardized by the case mix index and adjusted by relative values. The cost and charges used
to establish rates shall only reflect inpatient services covered by medical assistance. Hospital and
claims data used to establish rates under this subdivision shall not be used to establish rates under
subdivisions 2, 2b, 2c, 3a, 4a, 5a, and 7 to 14.
    Subd. 14. Transfers. Except as provided in subdivisions 11 and 13, operating and property
payment rates for admissions that result in transfers and transfers shall be established on a per day
payment system. The per day payment rate shall be the sum of the adjusted operating and property
payment rates determined under this subdivision and subdivisions 2, 2b, 2c, 3a, 4a, 5a, and 7 to
12, divided by the arithmetic mean length of stay for the diagnostic category. Each admission that
results in a transfer and each transfer is considered a separate admission to each hospital, and
the total of the admission and transfer payments to each hospital must not exceed the total per
admission payment that would otherwise be made to each hospital under this subdivision and
subdivisions 2, 2b, 2c, 3a, 4a, 5a, and 7 to 13.
    Subd. 15. Routine service cost limitation; applicability. The computation of each hospital's
payment rate and the relative values of the diagnostic categories are not subject to the routine
service cost limitation imposed under the Medicare program.
    Subd. 16. Indian health service facilities. Facilities of the Indian health service and
facilities operated by a tribe or tribal organization under funding authorized by title III of the
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, Public Law 93-638, or by United
States Code, title 25, chapter 14, subchapter II, sections 450f to 450n, are exempt from the rate
establishment methods required by this section and shall be paid according to the rate published
by the United States assistant secretary for health under authority of United States Code, title 42,
sections 248A and 248B.
    Subd. 17. Out-of-state hospitals in local trade areas. Out-of-state hospitals that are located
within a Minnesota local trade area and that have more than 20 admissions in the base year shall
have rates established using the same procedures and methods that apply to Minnesota hospitals.
For this subdivision and subdivision 18, local trade area means a county contiguous to Minnesota
and located in a metropolitan statistical area as determined by Medicare for October 1 prior to
the most current rebased rate year. Hospitals that are not required by law to file information in
a format necessary to establish rates shall have rates established based on the commissioner's
estimates of the information. Relative values of the diagnostic categories shall not be redetermined
under this subdivision until required by rule. Hospitals affected by this subdivision shall then be
included in determining relative values. However, hospitals that have rates established based upon
the commissioner's estimates of information shall not be included in determining relative values.
This subdivision is effective for hospital fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 1988. A hospital
shall provide the information necessary to establish rates under this subdivision at least 90 days
before the start of the hospital's fiscal year.
    Subd. 18. Out-of-state hospitals outside local trade areas. Hospitals that are not located
within Minnesota or a Minnesota local trade area shall have operating and property rates
established at the average of statewide and local trade area rates or, at the commissioner's
discretion, at an amount negotiated by the commissioner. Relative values shall not include data
from hospitals that have rates established under this subdivision. Payments, including third party
and recipient liability, established under this subdivision may not exceed the charges on a claim
specific basis for inpatient services that are covered by medical assistance.
    Subd. 19. Metabolic disorder testing of medical assistance recipients. Medical assistance
inpatient payment rates must include the cost incurred by hospitals to pay the Department of
Health for metabolic disorder testing of newborns who are medical assistance recipients, if the
cost is not recognized by another payment source.
    Subd. 20. Increases in medical assistance inpatient payments; conditions. (a) Medical
assistance inpatient payments shall increase 20 percent for inpatient hospital originally paid
admissions, excluding Medicare crossovers, that occurred between July 1, 1988 and December
31, 1990, if: (i) the hospital had 100 or fewer Minnesota medical assistance annualized paid
admissions, excluding Medicare crossovers, that were paid by March 1, 1988, for the period
January 1, 1987 to June 30, 1987; (ii) the hospital had 100 or fewer licensed beds on March 1,
1988; (iii) the hospital is located in Minnesota; and (iv) the hospital is not located in a city of the
first class as defined in section 410.01. For purposes of this paragraph, medical assistance does
not include general assistance medical care.
(b) Medical assistance inpatient payments shall increase 15 percent for inpatient hospital
originally paid admissions, excluding Medicare crossovers, that occurred between July 1, 1988
and December 31, 1990, if: (i) the hospital had more than 100 but fewer than 250 Minnesota
medical assistance annualized paid admissions, excluding Medicare crossovers, that were paid by
March 1, 1988, for the period January 1, 1987 to June 30, 1987; (ii) the hospital had 100 or fewer
licensed beds on March 1, 1988; (iii) the hospital is located in Minnesota; and (iv) the hospital is
not located in a city of the first class as defined in section 410.01. For purposes of this paragraph,
medical assistance does not include general assistance medical care.
(c) Medical assistance inpatient payment rates shall increase 20 percent for inpatient hospital
originally paid admissions, excluding Medicare crossovers, that occur on or after October 1, 1992,
if: (i) the hospital had 100 or fewer Minnesota medical assistance annualized paid admissions,
excluding Medicare crossovers, that were paid by March 1, 1988, for the period January 1, 1987
to June 30, 1987; (ii) the hospital had 100 or fewer licensed beds on March 1, 1988; (iii) the
hospital is located in Minnesota; and (iv) the hospital is not located in a city of the first class as
defined in section 410.01. For a hospital that qualifies for an adjustment under this paragraph and
under subdivision 9 or 23, the hospital must be paid the adjustment under subdivisions 9 and
23, as applicable, plus any amount by which the adjustment under this paragraph exceeds the
adjustment under those subdivisions. For this paragraph, medical assistance does not include
general assistance medical care.
(d) Medical assistance inpatient payment rates shall increase 15 percent for inpatient hospital
originally paid admissions, excluding Medicare crossovers, that occur after September 30, 1992,
if: (i) the hospital had more than 100 but fewer than 250 Minnesota medical assistance annualized
paid admissions, excluding Medicare crossovers, that were paid by March 1, 1988, for the period
January 1, 1987 to June 30, 1987; (ii) the hospital had 100 or fewer licensed beds on March
1, 1988; (iii) the hospital is located in Minnesota; and (iv) the hospital is not located in a city
of the first class as defined in section 410.01. For a hospital that qualifies for an adjustment
under this paragraph and under subdivision 9 or 23, the hospital must be paid the adjustment
under subdivisions 9 and 23, as applicable, plus any amount by which the adjustment under this
paragraph exceeds the adjustment under those subdivisions. For purposes of this paragraph,
medical assistance does not include general assistance medical care.
    Subd. 21. Mental health or chemical dependency admissions; rates. Admissions under
the general assistance medical care program occurring on or after July 1, 1990, and admissions
under medical assistance, excluding general assistance medical care, occurring on or after July
1, 1990, and on or before September 30, 1992, that are classified to a diagnostic category of
mental health or chemical dependency shall have rates established according to the methods of
subdivision 14, except the per day rate shall be multiplied by a factor of 2, provided that the total
of the per day rates shall not exceed the per admission rate. This methodology shall also apply
when a hold or commitment is ordered by the court for the days that inpatient hospital services
are medically necessary. Stays which are medically necessary for inpatient hospital services and
covered by medical assistance shall not be billable to any other governmental entity. Medical
necessity shall be determined under criteria established to meet the requirements of section
256B.04, subdivision 15, or 256D.03, subdivision 7, paragraph (b).
    Subd. 22. Hospital payment adjustment. For admissions occurring from January 1,
1993 until June 30, 1993, the commissioner shall adjust the medical assistance payment paid
to a hospital, excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian Health
Service, with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate in excess of the arithmetic mean. The
adjustment must be determined as follows:
(1) for a hospital with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate above the arithmetic
mean for all hospitals excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian
Health Service, the adjustment must be determined by multiplying the total of the operating
and property payment rates by the difference between the hospital's actual medical assistance
inpatient utilization rate and the arithmetic mean for all hospitals excluding regional treatment
centers and facilities of the federal Indian Health Service; and
(2) for a hospital with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate above one standard
deviation above the mean, the adjustment must be determined by multiplying the adjustment
under clause (1) for that hospital by 1.1. Any payment under this clause must be reduced by the
amount of any payment received under subdivision 9a. For purposes of this subdivision, medical
assistance does not include general assistance medical care.
This subdivision is effective only if federal matching funds are not available for all
adjustments under this subdivision and it is necessary to implement ratable reductions under
subdivision 9.
    Subd. 23. Hospital payment adjustment after June 30, 1993. (a) For admissions occurring
after June 30, 1993, the commissioner shall adjust the medical assistance payment paid to
a hospital, excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian Health
Service, with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate in excess of the arithmetic mean. The
adjustment must be determined as follows:
(1) for a hospital with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate above the arithmetic
mean for all hospitals excluding regional treatment centers and facilities of the federal Indian
Health Service, the adjustment must be determined by multiplying the total of the operating
and property payment rates by the difference between the hospital's actual medical assistance
inpatient utilization rate and the arithmetic mean for all hospitals excluding regional treatment
centers and facilities of the federal Indian Health Service; and
(2) for a hospital with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate above one standard
deviation above the mean, the adjustment must be determined by multiplying the adjustment
under clause (1) for that hospital by 1.1.
(b) Any payment under this subdivision must be reduced by the amount of any payment
received under subdivision 9, paragraph (b), clause (1) or (2). For purposes of this subdivision,
medical assistance does not include general assistance medical care.
(c) The commissioner shall adjust rates paid to a health maintenance organization under
contract with the commissioner to reflect rate increases provided in this section. The adjustment
must be made on a nondiscounted hospital-specific basis.
    Subd. 24.[Repealed, 1995 c 207 art 6 s 124]
    Subd. 25. Long-term hospital rates. For admissions occurring on or after April 1, 1995, a
long-term hospital as designated by Medicare that does not have admissions in the base year shall
have inpatient rates established at the average of other hospitals with the same designation. For
subsequent rate-setting periods in which base years are updated, the hospital's base year shall be
the first Medicare cost report filed with the long-term hospital designation and shall remain in
effect until it falls within the same period as other hospitals.
    Subd. 26. Greater Minnesota payment adjustment after June 30, 2001. (a) For
admissions occurring after June 30, 2001, the commissioner shall pay fee-for-service inpatient
admissions for the diagnosis-related groups specified in paragraph (b) at hospitals located outside
of the seven-county metropolitan area at the higher of:
(1) the hospital's current payment rate for the diagnostic category to which the
diagnosis-related group belongs, exclusive of disproportionate population adjustments received
under subdivision 9 and hospital payment adjustments received under subdivision 23; or
(2) 90 percent of the average payment rate for that diagnostic category for hospitals located
within the seven-county metropolitan area, exclusive of disproportionate population adjustments
received under subdivision 9 and hospital payment adjustments received under subdivisions
20 and 23.
(b) The payment increases provided in paragraph (a) apply to the following diagnosis-related
groups, as they fall within the diagnostic categories:
(1) 370 cesarean section with complicating diagnosis;
(2) 371 cesarean section without complicating diagnosis;
(3) 372 vaginal delivery with complicating diagnosis;
(4) 373 vaginal delivery without complicating diagnosis;
(5) 386 extreme immaturity and respiratory distress syndrome, neonate;
(6) 388 full-term neonates with other problems;
(7) 390 prematurity without major problems;
(8) 391 normal newborn;
(9) 385 neonate, died or transferred to another acute care facility;
(10) 425 acute adjustment reaction and psychosocial dysfunction;
(11) 430 psychoses;
(12) 431 childhood mental disorders; and
(13) 164-167 appendectomy.
    Subd. 27. Quarterly payment adjustment. (a) In addition to any other payment under this
section, the commissioner shall make the following payments effective July 1, 2007:
    (1) for a hospital located in Minnesota and not eligible for payments under subdivision
20, with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate greater than 17.8 percent of total patient
days as of the base year in effect on July 1, 2005, a payment equal to 13 percent of the total
of the operating and property payment rates;
    (2) for a hospital located in Minnesota in a specified urban area outside of the seven-county
metropolitan area and not eligible for payments under subdivision 20, with a medical assistance
inpatient utilization rate less than or equal to 17.8 percent of total patient days as of the base
year in effect on July 1, 2005, a payment equal to ten percent of the total of the operating and
property payment rates. For purposes of this clause, the following cities are specified urban areas:
Detroit Lakes, Rochester, Willmar, Alexandria, Austin, Cambridge, Brainerd, Hibbing, Mankato,
Duluth, St. Cloud, Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Fergus Falls, Albert Lea, Winona, Virginia, Thief
River Falls, and Wadena;
    (3) for a hospital located in Minnesota but not located in a specified urban area under clause
(2), with a medical assistance inpatient utilization rate less than or equal to 17.8 percent of total
patient days as of the base year in effect on July 1, 2005, a payment equal to four percent of the
total of the operating and property payment rates. A hospital located in Woodbury and not in
existence during the base year shall be reimbursed under this clause; and
    (4) in addition to any payments under clauses (1) to (3), for a hospital located in Minnesota
and not eligible for payments under subdivision 20 with a medical assistance inpatient utilization
rate of 17.9 percent of total patient days as of the base year in effect on July 1, 2005, a payment
equal to eight percent of the total of the operating and property payment rates, and for a hospital
located in Minnesota and not eligible for payments under subdivision 20 with a medical assistance
inpatient utilization rate of 59.6 percent of total patient days as of the base year in effect on July
1, 2005, a payment equal to nine percent of the total of the operating and property payment
rates. After making any ratable adjustments required under paragraph (b), the commissioner
shall proportionately reduce payments under clauses (2) and (3) by an amount needed to make
payments under this clause.
    (b) The state share of payments under paragraph (a) shall be equal to federal reimbursements
to the commissioner to reimburse expenditures reported under section 256B.199. The
commissioner shall ratably reduce or increase payments under this subdivision in order to ensure
that these payments equal the amount of reimbursement received by the commissioner under
section 256B.199, except that payments shall be ratably reduced by an amount equivalent to the
state share of a four percent reduction in MinnesotaCare and medical assistance payments for
inpatient hospital services. Effective July 1, 2009, the ratable reduction shall be equivalent to
the state share of a three percent reduction in these payments.
    (c) The payments under paragraph (a) shall be paid quarterly based on each hospital's
operating and property payments from the second previous quarter, beginning on July 15, 2007, or
upon federal approval of federal reimbursements under section 256B.199, whichever occurs later.
    (d) The commissioner shall not adjust rates paid to a prepaid health plan under contract with
the commissioner to reflect payments provided in paragraph (a).
    (e) The commissioner shall maximize the use of available federal money for disproportionate
share hospital payments and shall maximize payments to qualifying hospitals. In order to
accomplish these purposes, the commissioner may, in consultation with the nonstate entities
identified in section 256B.199, adjust, on a pro rata basis if feasible, the amounts reported by
nonstate entities under section 256B.199 when application for reimbursement is made to the
federal government, and otherwise adjust the provisions of this subdivision. The commissioner
shall utilize a settlement process based on finalized data to maximize revenue under section
256B.199 and payments under this section.
    (f) For purposes of this subdivision, medical assistance does not include general assistance
medical care.
History: 1983 c 312 art 5 s 9; 1984 c 534 s 20,21; 1984 c 640 s 32; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58;
1Sp1985 c 9 art 2 s 34-36; 1986 c 420 s 6; 1Sp1986 c 3 art 2 s 51; 1987 c 403 art 2 s 64,65; 1988
c 435 s 1; 1988 c 689 art 2 s 139,140; 1989 c 282 art 3 s 38; 1990 c 568 art 3 s 16,17; 1991 c 292
art 4 s 25-29; 1992 c 464 art 1 s 27,28; 1992 c 513 art 7 s 23-27; 1992 c 603 s 34,35; 1993 c 20 s
1-5; 1Sp1993 c 1 art 5 s 18-25; 1Sp1993 c 6 s 7,8; 1995 c 207 art 6 s 19-25; 1996 c 395 s 11;
1996 c 451 art 2 s 5; art 5 s 11-13; 1997 c 187 art 1 s 20; 1997 c 203 art 4 s 16; 1998 c 407 art 4
s 9,10; 1999 c 245 art 4 s 25; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 2 s 13; art 9 s 37; 2002 c 220 art 15 s 5; 2002 c 379
art 1 s 113; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 12 s 8-10; 1Sp2005 c 4 art 8 s 12-15; 2007 c 147 art 5 s 4,5

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