A bill for an act
relating to health; requiring nonprofit hospitals to make certain information
available to the public and report certain information to the commissioner of health;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 144.698, subdivision 1; 144.699,
subdivision 5; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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This act shall be known as the "Tax-Exempt Accountability Law (TEAL)."
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Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 144.698, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Each hospital and each outpatient surgical center, which
has not filed the financial information required by this section with a voluntary, nonprofit
reporting organization pursuant to section 144.702, shall file annually with the commissioner
of health after the close of the fiscal year:
(1) a balance sheet detailing the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the hospital or
outpatient surgical center;
(2) a detailed statement of income and expenses;
(3) a copy of its most recent cost report, if any, filed pursuant to requirements of Title
XVIII of the United States Social Security Act;
(4) a copy of all changes to articles of incorporation or bylaws;
(5) information on services provided to benefit the community, including services
provided at no cost or for a reduced fee to patients unable to pay, teaching and research
activities, or other community or charitable activities;
(6) information required on the revenue and expense report form set in effect on July 1,
1989, or as amended by the commissioner in rule;
(7) information on changes in ownership or control;
(8) other information required by the commissioner in rule;
(9) information on the number of available hospital beds that are dedicated to certain
specialized services, as designated by the commissioner, and annual occupancy rates for
those beds, separately for adult and pediatric care;
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(11) a report on health care capital expenditures during the previous year, as required
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(12) for hospitals, data on hospital expenses and the number of full-time equivalents for
the following employees and contract staff:
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(i) full-time registered nurses and licensed practical nurses whose primary duties are to
provide direct patient care;
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(ii) full-time registered nurses and licensed practical nurses whose primary duties are
administrative or managerial;
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(iii) registered nurses whose primary duties are to provide direct patient care and who
are working on a temporary basis or on a short-term contract through a third-party staffing
agency, including but not limited to per diem nurses, travel nurses, and nurses on assignment
for a few months at a time;
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(iv) registered nurses whose primary duties are administrative or managerial and who
are working on a temporary basis or on a short-term contract through a third-party staffing
agency, including but not limited to per diem nurses, travel nurses, and nurses on assignment
for a few months at a time; and
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(v) temporary physicians and hospitalists, including physicians working on a temporary
basis and paid as independent contractors either according to a contract or through a
third-party agency.
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For purposes of this clause, an individual's primary duties are to provide direct patient care
if the individual's work assignment typically includes working at the patient bedside or
providing other direct patient care; and
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(13) for hospitals, data on:
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(i) expenditures for billboards, radio and television advertisements, online and other
digital advertisements, flyers, posters, or marketing materials featuring the name, branding,
or logo of the hospital;
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(ii) consulting fees and other payments made to third-party entities for strategic,
organizational, or day-to-day management services of the hospital; and
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(iii) costs incurred by the hospital to plan or carry out activities or strategies to prevent
or discourage workers from communicating with, organizing, or otherwise coordinating
with labor organizations.
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A nonprofit hospital that is exempt
from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code must make available
to the public and submit to the commissioner of health, by January 15, 2025, the most recent
community health needs assessment submitted by the hospital to the Internal Revenue
Service. Each time the hospital conducts a subsequent community health needs assessment,
the hospital must, within 15 business days after submitting the subsequent community health
needs assessment to the Internal Revenue Service, make the subsequent assessment available
to the public and submit the subsequent assessment to the commissioner.
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A nonprofit hospital subject to subdivision 1 must
make available to the public and submit to the commissioner of health a description of the
community served by the hospital. The description must include a geographic description
of the area where the hospital is located, a description of the general population served by
the hospital, and demographic information about the community served by the hospital,
such as leading causes of death, levels of chronic illness, and descriptions of the medically
underserved, low-income, minority, or chronically ill populations in the community. A
hospital is not required to separately make the information available to the public or
separately submit the information to the commissioner if the information is included in the
hospital's community health needs assessment made available and submitted under
subdivision 1.
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(a) A nonprofit hospital
subject to subdivision 1 must annually submit to the commissioner an addendum which
details information about hospital activities identified as community health improvement
services with a cost of $5,000 or more. The addendum must include the type of activity, the
method through which the activity was delivered, how the activity relates to an identified
community need in the community health needs assessment, the target population for the
activity, strategies to reach the target population, identified outcome metrics, the cost to the
hospital to provide the activity, the methodology used to calculate the hospital's costs, and
the number of people served by the activity. If a community health improvement service is
administered by an entity other than the hospital, the administering entity must be identified
in the addendum. This paragraph does not apply to hospitals required to submit an addendum
under paragraph (b).
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(b) A nonprofit hospital subject to subdivision 1 must annually submit to the
commissioner an addendum which details information about the ten highest-cost activities
of the hospital identified as community health improvement services if the nonprofit hospital:
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(1) is designated as a critical access hospital under section 144.1483, clause (9), and
United States Code, title 42, section 1395i-4;