MN HF2924

Amends Minnesota Statutes section 256.969, subdivision 2b, to modify hospital inpatient payment rates for discharges occurring on or after November 1, 2014.

Establishes different payment methodologies based on hospital type: critical access hospitals use cost-based methodology, long-term hospitals use per diem methodology, rehabilitation hospitals use specified methodology, and all other hospitals use diagnosis-related group (DRG) methodology.

Requires rate rebasing effective July 1, 2017, and every two years thereafter to reflect changes in hospital costs, with pandemic-affected years excluded from base year calculations.

Effective July 1, 2023, establishes new payment rates for critical access hospitals set at 100 percent of base year costs inflated using the hospital cost index, replacing the previous tiered payment structure.

Requires the commissioner to calculate and report estimated changes in average payment per hospital discharge to the legislature by January 15 of each rebasing year, including differential comparisons to individual hospital costs.