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 days, including bed-hold days, less medicare days, for the purpose of improving the quality of nursing facility or skilled nursing facility care in this state. The assessment shall be three dollars and fifty cents for each resident day for the preceding calendar quarter. The assessment in the aggregate shall not exceed the amount stated in section 68-1920.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 68-1917

  • Nursing facility: has the meaning found in section 71-424. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1912
  • Quality assurance assessment: means the assessment imposed under section 68-1917. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1913
  • Resident day: means the calendar day in which care is provided to an individual resident of a nursing facility or skilled nursing facility that is not reimbursed under medicare, including the day of admission but not including the day of discharge, unless the dates of admission and discharge occur on the same day, in which case the resulting number of resident days is one resident day. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1914
  • Skilled nursing facility: has the meaning found in section 71-429. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1915
  • State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • 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. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1916