2001 House Bill 4057 ↩

Senate Roll Call 472: Passed

To require criminal background checks for employees of nursing homes, county medical care facilities, homes for the aged, and , adult foster care facilities. The bill is part of a legislative package comprised of House Bills 4057 and 4453. The bill was used a legislative "vehicle" for the “Michigan Medicaid Quality Assurance Assessment” (MMQAA) program announced by Gov. Engler on April 9, 2002. The program would impose a fee on nursing homes of $2.77 per bed daily. This would generate $44.7 million annually, which would enable the state to collect $55.6 million in new federal revenue. The entire amount of $100.7 million would then be returned to nursing homes in the form of a seven-percent increase in Medicaid reimbursements. However, the new fee would also apply to nursing homes that do not have any Medicaid-funded residents, and these would therefore not receive additional funds. Federal law requires that these assessments be established in state law in order to receive the additional money.