Bill Text: MN HF2841 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: University-affiliated children's hospitals added to the list of facilities excluded from fee-for-service payment rate reductions.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-20 - Author added McDonald [HF2841 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-HF2841-Introduced.html
1.2relating to human services; adding university-affiliated children's hospitals to the
1.3list of facilities excluded from fee-for-service payment rate reductions;amending
1.4Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 256.969, subdivision 3c.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 256.969, subdivision 3c, is amended to read:
1.7 Subd. 3c. Rateable reduction and readmissions reduction. (a) The total payment
1.8for fee for service admissions occurring on or after September 1, 2011, through June 30,
1.92015, made to hospitals for inpatient services before third-party liability and spenddown,
1.10is reduced ten percent from the current statutory rates. Facilities defined under subdivision
1.1116, long-term hospitals as determined under the Medicare program, children's hospitals
1.12and university-affiliated children's hospitals whose inpatients are predominantly under 18
1.13years of age, and payments under managed care are excluded from this paragraph.
1.14(b) Effective for admissions occurring during calendar year 2010 and each year
1.15after, the commissioner shall calculate a regional readmission rate for admissions to all
1.16hospitals occurring within 30 days of a previous discharge. The commissioner may
1.17adjust the readmission rate taking into account factors such as the medical relationship,
1.18complicating conditions, and sequencing of treatment between the initial admission and
1.19subsequent readmissions.
1.20(c) Effective for payments to all hospitals on or after July 1, 2013, through June 30,
1.212015, the reduction in paragraph (a) is reduced one percentage point for every percentage
1.22point reduction in the overall readmissions rate between the two previous calendar years
1.23to a maximum of five percent.
2.1(d) The payment rate reduction exclusion in paragraph (a) for university-affiliated
2.2children's hospitals is effective for admissions occurring on or after July 1, 2012.
2.3EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective retroactively from July 1, 2012.
1.3list of facilities excluded from fee-for-service payment rate reductions;amending
1.4Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 256.969, subdivision 3c.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 256.969, subdivision 3c, is amended to read:
1.7 Subd. 3c. Rateable reduction and readmissions reduction. (a) The total payment
1.8for fee for service admissions occurring on or after September 1, 2011, through June 30,
1.92015, made to hospitals for inpatient services before third-party liability and spenddown,
1.10is reduced ten percent from the current statutory rates. Facilities defined under subdivision
1.1116, long-term hospitals as determined under the Medicare program, children's hospitals
1.12and university-affiliated children's hospitals whose inpatients are predominantly under 18
1.13years of age, and payments under managed care are excluded from this paragraph.
1.14(b) Effective for admissions occurring during calendar year 2010 and each year
1.15after, the commissioner shall calculate a regional readmission rate for admissions to all
1.16hospitals occurring within 30 days of a previous discharge. The commissioner may
1.17adjust the readmission rate taking into account factors such as the medical relationship,
1.18complicating conditions, and sequencing of treatment between the initial admission and
1.19subsequent readmissions.
1.20(c) Effective for payments to all hospitals on or after July 1, 2013, through June 30,
1.212015, the reduction in paragraph (a) is reduced one percentage point for every percentage
1.22point reduction in the overall readmissions rate between the two previous calendar years
1.23to a maximum of five percent.
2.1(d) The payment rate reduction exclusion in paragraph (a) for university-affiliated
2.2children's hospitals is effective for admissions occurring on or after July 1, 2012.
2.3EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective retroactively from July 1, 2012.
