Chapter 68 — PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
697 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1916 Total resident days, defined.
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Total resident days means the total number of residents residing in the nursing facility or skilled nursing facility between July 1 and June 30, multiplied by the number of days each such resident resided in that nursing facility or skilled nursing facility. If a resident is admi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1917 Quality assurance assessment; payment; computation.
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Except for facilities which are exempt under section 68-1918 and facilities referred to in section 68-1919, each nursing facility or skilled nursing facility licensed under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act shall pay a quality assurance assessment based on total resident day…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1918 Providers exempt.
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The department shall exempt the following providers from the quality assurance assessment: (1) State-operated veterans homes listed in section 80-315; (2) Nursing facilities and skilled nursing facilities with twenty-six or fewer licensed beds; and (3) Continuing care retirement …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1919 Reduction of quality assurance assessment; when.
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The department shall reduce the quality assurance assessment for either certain high-volume medicaid nursing facilities or skilled nursing facilities with high patient volumes to meet the redistribution tests in 42 C.F.R. 433.68(e)(2). Under this section, the assessment shall be …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1920 Aggregate quality assurance assessment; limitation.
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The aggregate quality assurance assessment shall not exceed the lower of the amount necessary to accomplish the uses specified in section 68-1926 or the maximum amount of gross inpatient revenue that may be assessed pursuant to the indirect guarantee threshold as established purs…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1921 Quality assurance assessment; payments; form.
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Each nursing facility or skilled nursing facility shall pay the quality assurance assessment to the department on a quarterly basis after the medical assistance payment rates of the facility are adjusted pursuant to section 68-1926. The department shall prepare and distribute a f…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1922 Department; collect quality assurance assessment; remit to State Treasurer.
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The department shall collect the quality assurance assessment and remit the assessment to the State Treasurer for credit to the Nursing Facility Quality Assurance Fund. No proceeds from the quality assurance assessment, including the federal match, shall be placed in the General …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1923 Quality assurance assessment; report; medicaid cost report; how treated.
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A nursing facility or skilled nursing facility shall report the quality assurance assessment on a separate line of the medicaid cost report of the nursing facility or skilled nursing facility. The quality assurance assessment shall be treated as a separate component in developing…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1924 Underpayment or overpayment; notice.
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If the department determines that a nursing facility or skilled nursing facility has underpaid or overpaid the quality assurance assessment, the department shall notify the nursing facility or skilled nursing facility of the unpaid quality assurance assessment or refund due. Such…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1925 Failure to pay; penalty; waiver; when; withholding authorized; collection methods authorized.
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(1) A nursing facility or skilled nursing facility that fails to pay the quality assurance assessment within the timeframe specified in section 68-1921 or 68-1924, whichever is applicable, shall pay, in addition to the outstanding quality assurance assessment, a penalty of one an…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1926 Nursing Facility Quality Assurance Fund; created; use; investment.
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(1) The Nursing Facility Quality Assurance Fund is created. Interest and income earned by the fund shall be credited to the fund. Any money in the fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1927 Application for amendment to medicaid state plan; approval; effect; resubmission of waiver application.
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(1) On or before September 30, 2011, or after that date if allowable by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services shall submit an application to the Centers for…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1928 Department; discontinue collection of quality assurance assessments; when; return of money.
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(1) The department shall discontinue collection of the quality assurance assessments: (a) If the waiver requested pursuant to section 68-1927 or the medicaid state plan amendment reflecting the payment rates in section 68-1926 is given final disapproval by the Centers for Medicar…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1929 Aggrieved party; hearing; petition.
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A nursing facility or skilled nursing facility aggrieved by an action of the department under the Nursing Facility Quality Assurance Assessment Act may file a petition for hearing with the director of the Division of Medicaid and Long-Term Care of the department. The hearing shal…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-1930 Rules and regulations.
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The department may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the Nursing Facility Quality Assurance Assessment Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2001 Act, how cited.
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Sections 68-2001 to 68-2005 shall be known and may be cited as the Children's Health and Treatment Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2002 Purposes of act.
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The purposes of the Children's Health and Treatment Act are to: (1) Require that the guidelines and criteria that the Department of Health and Human Services utilizes to determine medical necessity for services under the medical assistance program be published by the department o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2003 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Children's Health and Treatment Act: (1) Department means the Department of Health and Human Services; and (2) Medical assistance program means the program established pursuant to section 68-903.
Repealed. Laws 2025, LB376, § 42.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2005 Rules and regulations.
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The department shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the Children's Health and Treatment Act. On and after April 1, 2013, the department shall not apply medical necessity criteria to determine medical necessity for children under nineteen years of age that…
Repealed. Laws 1953, c. 237, § 11.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1963, c. 340, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1961, c. 328, § 1.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2101 Act, how cited.
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Sections 68-2101 to 68-2109 shall be known and may be cited as the Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2102 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Act: (1) Assessment means a quality assurance and access assessment imposed on hospitals pursuant to section 68-2103; (2) Department means the Division of Medicaid and Long-Term Care of the Department of Health …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2103 Hospital inpatient and outpatient services; assessments and directed-payment programs; establish; department; powers and duties.
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(1) The department shall amend the medicaid state plan or file other federal authorizing documents to establish assessments and directed-payment programs for hospital inpatient and outpatient services. (2) Upon approval by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2104 Assessments; collection and remittance.
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(1) Except as provided in section 68-2106, the department shall collect assessments from hospitals and remit the assessments to the State Treasurer for credit to the Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Fund. It is the intent of the Legislature that no proceeds from t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2105 Assessment; statewide aggregate assessment; amounts, how determined; payment; procedure.
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(1) Each hospital shall pay an assessment based on net patient revenue for the purpose of improving the quality of, and access to, hospital care in the state. The statewide aggregate assessment shall equal (a) the state share of the payments authorized by the federal Centers for …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2106 Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Fund; created; use; investment; department; duties; medicaid managed care organizations; hospitals; prohibited acts.
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(1) The Hospital Quality Assurance and Access Assessment Fund is created. Interest earned on the fund shall be credited to the fund. Any money in the fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2107 Hospital inpatient and outpatient services; medicaid rates; legislative intent.
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It is the intent of the Legislature that medicaid rates paid for hospital inpatient and outpatient services and the General Fund appropriations for hospital inpatient and outpatient services in the medical assistance program shall not be reduced to an amount below the rates paid …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2108 Assessments and directed-payment programs; treatment; retroactive.
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Assessments and directed-payment programs shall be treated as a separate component in developing rates paid to hospitals and shall not be included with existing rate components. The assessments and directed-payment programs shall be retroactive to July 1, 2024, or the effective d…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 68-2109 Assessments; discontinue, when; effect.
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(1) The department shall discontinue the collection of assessments when federal matching funds are unavailable. In such case, the department shall terminate the collection of the assessments beginning on the date such federal matching funds become unavailable. (2) If collection o…
Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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Repealed. Laws 1996, LB 1155, § 121.
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Repealed. Laws 1971, LB 130, § 2.
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Repealed. Laws 1971, LB 130, § 2.
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Repealed. Laws 1971, LB 130, § 2.
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Repealed. Laws 1971, LB 130, § 2.
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Repealed. Laws 1965, c. 395, § 27.
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