Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3353

2E Relating to human services; providing long term care rate adjustments for
nursing facility operating costs under the alternative payment demonstration
system; requiring the commissioner of human services to provide certain nursing
facilities and ICF/MR facilities a health insurance per diem to the total
operating payment rate for employee purchases of private sector health insurance
coverage, limitation, specifying certain reporting requirements; prohibiting the
commissioner from rebasing nursing facility payment rates without specific
authority; increasing the total operating payment rate for ICF/MR facilities;
modifying certain MinnesotaCare eligibility requirements relating to employer
subsidized insurance; modifying certain prior provider rate increases and use
requirements; requiring the commissioner to provide a rate adjustment for
employee health insurance costs for the providers of the services, specifying
certain county contract modification requirements; requiring the legislature to
hold committee hearings to allow for recommendations for rebasing methods and
objectives; requiring the commissioners of human services and health to consult
with consumers, nursing facility providers and nursing facility employees on new
and emerging staff positions and titles, requiring a report to the legislature
by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of human services in consultation
with long term care providers and employees and stakeholders to determine the
cost of a rate increase to long term care employers for use in purchasing
employee health insurance in the private insurance market, specifying certain
duties and requiring report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring the
commissioner of human services to use previously appropriated money for the
phase-in of rebased operating payment rates; repealing a certain provision
relating to phase in of rebased operating cost payment rates and hold harmless
under the value based nursing facility reimbursement system
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