§ 256R.481 — Rate Adjustments for Border City Facilities
Plain-Language Summary
Nonprofit nursing facilities in Breckenridge and Moorhead can apply for a rate add-on to help them compete with facilities across the border in North Dakota. The add-on equals the difference between their rate and the median rate of comparable facilities in the neighboring state.
256R.481 RATE ADJUSTMENTS FOR BORDER CITY FACILITIES.
(a) The commissioner shall allow each nonprofit nursing facility located within the boundaries of the city of Breckenridge or Moorhead prior to January 1, 2015, to apply once annually for a rate add-on to the facility’s external fixed costs payment rate.
(b) A facility seeking an add-on to its external fixed costs payment rate under this section must apply annually to the commissioner to receive the add-on. A facility must submit the application within 60 calendar days of the effective date of any add-on under this section. The commissioner may waive the deadlines required by this paragraph under extraordinary circumstances.
(c) The commissioner shall provide the add-on to each eligible facility that applies by the application deadline.
(d) The add-on to the external fixed costs payment rate is the difference on January 1 of the median total payment rate for case mix classification PA1 of the nonprofit facilities located in an adjacent city in another state and in cities contiguous to the adjacent city minus the eligible nursing facility’s total payment rate for case mix classification PA1 as determined under section 256R.22, subdivision 4.
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1Sp2019 c 9 art 4 s 25