§ 249K.2 — Definitions

Iowa § 249K.2

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VI: HUMAN SERVICES
• Ch. 249K: NURSING FACILITY CONSTRUCTION OR EXPANSION

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Complete replacement” means completed construction on a new nursing facility to
replace an existing licensed and certified facility. The replacement facility shall be located
in the same geographical service area as the facility that is replaced and shall have the same
number or fewer licensed beds than the original facility.
2. “Department” means the department of health and human services.
3. “Major renovations” means construction or facility improvements to a nursing facility
in which the total amount expended exceeds seven hundred fifty thousand dollars.
4. “Medical assistance”, “medical assistance program”, or “Medicaid program” means the
medical assistance program created pursuant to chapter 249A.
5. “New construction” means the construction of a new nursing facility which does not
replace an existing licensed and certified facility and requires the provider to obtain a
certificate of need pursuant to chapter 10A, subchapter VII.
6. “Nondirect care component” means the portion of the reimbursement rate under the
medical assistance program attributable to administrative, environmental, property, and
support care costs reported on the provider’s financial and statistical report.
7. “Nursing facility” means a nursing facility as defined in section 135C.1.
8. “Provider” means a current or future owner or operator of a nursing facility that
provides medical assistance program services.
9. “Rate determination letter” means the letter that is distributed quarterly by the
Medicaid program to each nursing facility, which is based on previously submitted financial
and statistical reports from each nursing facility.