Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Nursing Facility Quality Assurance Assessment Act

• Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bed-hold day: means a day during which a bed is kept open pursuant to the bed-hold policy of the nursing facility or skilled nursing facility which permits a resident to return to the facility and resume residence in the facility after a transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1903
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1905
• Domestic: when applied to corporations shall mean all those created by authority of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Gross inpatient revenue: means the revenue paid to a nursing facility or skilled nursing facility for inpatient resident care, room, board, and services less contractual adjustments, bad debt, and revenue from sources other than operations, including, but not limited to, interest, guest meals, gifts, and grants. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1906
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Hospital: has the meaning found in section Nebraska Statutes 68-1907
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Medical assistance program: means the medical assistance program established pursuant to the Medical Assistance Act. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1909
• Medicare day means any day of resident stay funded by medicare as the payment source and: includes a day funded under Medicare Part A, under a Medicare Advantage or special needs plan, or under medicare hospice. See Nebraska Statutes 68-1910
• Medicare upper payment limit: means the limitation established by Nebraska Statutes 68-1911
• Month: shall mean calendar month. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Nursing facility: has the meaning found in section Nebraska Statutes 68-1912
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Person shall: include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Quality assurance assessment: means the assessment imposed under section Nebraska Statutes 68-1913
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• 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 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
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• United States: shall include territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801