2025 Session Last amended: 2022 session

§ 256R.39 — Quality Improvement Incentive Program

Plain-Language Summary

The state sets aside 0.8 percent of all nursing facility operating payments for quality improvement incentive payments. The commissioner develops the program with input from stakeholders. Adjustments last for one rate year.

256R.39 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM.

The commissioner shall develop a quality improvement incentive program in consultation with stakeholders. The annual funding pool available for quality improvement incentive payments must be equal to 0.8 percent of all operating payments, not including any rate components resulting from equitable cost-sharing for publicly owned nursing facility program participation under section 256R.48, critical access nursing facility program participation under section 256R.47, or performance-based incentive payment program participation under section 256R.38. An annual rate adjustment provided under this section must be effective for one rate year.

History:

2016 c 99 art 1 s 26; 2022 c 98 art 7 s 30

History: History: 2016 c 99 art 1 s 26; 2022 c 98 art 7 s 30

Practical Notes

The 0.8 percent funding pool does not include rate components from publicly owned facility cost-sharing, critical access designations, or performance-based incentives. This is a separate program from performance-based incentive payments under section 256R.38. The annual rate adjustment must be renewed each year.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes