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Minn. House committee lays over bill to correct nursing-home rate timing for three nonprofit facilities
Summary
A Minnesota House committee heard testimony on House File 702, which would address reduced rate adjustments for three nonprofit nursing homes whose capital projects began before a Jan. 1, 2020 change to the moratorium-exception rate process; the bill was laid over for possible inclusion.
House File 702, a bill to address rate adjustments tied to the nursing-home moratorium-exception process, was introduced and laid over for possible inclusion after a committee hearing where an administrator from a Duluth facility described how timing of the process reduced rate increases for three nonprofit nursing homes.
Representative Davids introduced House File 702 and described it as “a very bipartisan bill,” saying the measure affects three nursing homes in the authors’ districts. Chester Fischel, administrator at Viewcrest Health Center in Duluth, told the committee his facility and two others — Linden (listed in testimony as Ling) Bloomston in Saint Paul and Chosen Valley Senior Living in Chatfield — began capital projects before Jan. 1, 2020, and completed them after that date. He said that…
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