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North Shore Health seeks swing-bed reclassification to boost Medicare reimbursement
Summary
North Shore Health, a small hospital district in Cook County, asked the Minnesota Senate HHS Finance and Policy Committee to allow reclassification of part of its nursing-home beds as hospital swing beds to increase Medicare reimbursement and avoid closure of local skilled nursing services; committee laid the bill over for a fiscal note.
Senator Hauschild introduced Senate File 1861 on behalf of North Shore Health, a small health system in Cook County, asking the committee to modify hospital swing-bed licensing and reimbursement rules so the health system can increase Medicare payments and reduce operating losses.
North Shore Health CEO Kimber Rolstead told the committee the organization comprises a 16‑bed critical access hospital, a 37‑bed skilled nursing facility, a home‑health agency and an ambulance service, all in Grand Marais. Rolstead said the facility’s nursing home has averaged annual losses of about $1.5 million over the…
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