HF 3613 Summary

• Amends Minnesota Statutes section 144.562, subdivision 2, regarding hospital swing bed eligibility and usage limits

• Excludes swing bed days classified as charity care or determined to have demonstrated inability to pay from the annual 2,000-day limit for eligible hospitals

• Requires critical access hospitals exceeding the 2,000 swing bed day limit to maintain documentation of contacting skilled nursing facilities within 25 miles and imposes a 24-hour response requirement for admission decisions

• Allows eligible hospitals to admit six additional patients to swing beds annually after reaching 2,000 days without commissioner approval, with these admissions exempt from the annual day limit

• Permits health care systems in full compliance to allocate total swing bed days among hospitals in the system, provided no hospital without an attached nursing home exceeds 2,000 days per year