Minnesota Legislature
Nursing facility payment and rate changes pass House, head to governor
An effort to increase transparency through clear language would move existing nursing facility payment and rate statutes into their own chapter and simplify them without changing the content.
Sponsored by Rep. Joe Schomacker (R-Luverne) and Sen. Tony Lourey (DFL-Kerrick), HF2851/SF2539* would recodify nursing facility payment rates, streamline language and remove rules made obsolete by newer legislation. The bill would not change the meaning of the statutes’ language nor have a fiscal impact.
Passed 130-0 by the House Thursday, the bill now goes to the governor. It was passed 61-0 by the Senate April 25.
Nursing home facility payments and rates language in existing law are often considered complex. The language is spread over eight non-sequential chapters and contains obsolete provisions. As a result, nonpartisan state staff reorganized nursing facility payment and rate language for clarity and ease of use.
“We found it was time to clean up the books when it came to nursing home statutes; some hadn’t been used in over three decades,” Schomacker said. “We wanted to better organize, and have this under a clean chapter of law.”
Nursing facility property rate language would not be effected.
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