Prairie View Nursing Home v. North Dakota Department of Human Services

MARING, Justice.

[¶ 1] Prairieview Nursing Home (Prai-rieview) appealed from a judgment affirming a decision by the North Dakota Department of Human Services which established the nursing home’s medicaid reimbursement rates for 1997. We conclude the Department did not err in deciding a 1967 “lease and option agreement” was a lease for purposes of establishing Prairieview’s 1997 rates. We affirm.

[¶ 2] Prairieview Healthcare, Inc., (Healthcare) is the current owner and operator of Prairieview. At issue in this appeal is the Department’s establishment of Prairieview’s medicaid reimbursement rates…