Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 249K - Nursing Facility Construction or Expansion

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Complete replacement: means completed construction on a new nursing facility to replace an existing licensed and certified facility. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Consumer: means any one of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 216E.1
• Department: means the department of human services. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Iowa Medicaid enterprise: means Iowa Medicaid enterprise as defined in section 135D. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Major renovations: means construction or facility improvements to a nursing facility in which the total amount expended exceeds seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• medical assistance program: means the medical assistance program created pursuant to chapter 249A. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• 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. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Nursing facility: means a nursing facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• Patient day: means a calendar day of care provided to an individual resident of a nursing facility that is not reimbursed under Medicare, including the date of admission but not including the date of discharge, unless the dates of admission and discharge occur on the same day, in which case the resulting number of patient days is one patient day. See Iowa Code 249L.2
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Provider: means a current or future owner or operator of a nursing facility that provides medical assistance program services. See Iowa Code 249K.2
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1