Three nonprofit nursing homes seek relief after rate-change timing left them under older reimbursement system

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee members heard testimony on House File 702 on March 10, 2025, a bill sponsored by Representative Davids seeking to extend or correct reimbursement eligibility for three nonprofit nursing homes whose capital projects began before a Jan. 1, 2020 change to Minnesota’s nursing-home moratorium exception rate process.

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Davids, said the three facilities — Viewcrest Health Center in Duluth, Ling Bloomston in St. Paul, and Chosen Valley Senior Living in Chatfield — started capital projects in 2018 and 2019 that were completed after the Jan. 1, 2020 change and therefore were placed on the older, lower rate schedule. "Our 3 care centers started our projects prior to January 1 of 2020," testifier Chester Fischel, administrator at Viewcrest, told the committee. "Due to this, we were put under the old rate system for this process and…