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Nursing facilities and counties
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have long been helpful partners
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in financing the State’s long term
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care system. The nursing facility
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and ICF-MR provider assessment
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(tax) generates $39.2 million,
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saving the State $16.6 million
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GPR annually. The current IGT
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program funds nearly $73 million
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of Medicaid costs. According the
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the Legislative Audit Bureau,
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nursing facility GPR
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expenditures actually have
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declined in recent years and the
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Legislative Fiscal Bureau figures
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show that nursing facility all
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funds expenditures increased by
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only 0.8% from 1996 to 2000.
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