Idaho
- Grounds stated in the sources
- Idaho's own administrative code once enumerated permissible grounds for involuntary transfer or discharge from a nursing facility at IDAPA 16.03.02. Idaho's 2025 Legislature repealed that chapter: Senate Bill No. 1015, enacted as 2025 Session Laws chapter 122, states, "The rules contained in IDAPA 16.03.02, Idaho Department of" — the bill's own left-margin line numbering falls mid-sentence here, reproduced as printed — "Health and Welfare, relating to Skilled Nursing Facilities, shall be null," "void, and of no force and effect on and after July 1, 2025." The chapter it replaced, Idaho Code Title 39, Chapter 13, is now titled the "Streamlined Facilities Licensing and Inspection Act." and licenses a nursing facility on certification alone: "(1) All medicare-certified or medicaid-certified hospitals, nursing facilities, or intermediate care facilities shall meet the standards for licensing pursuant to this chapter." "(3) A nursing facility or an intermediate care facility shall have and maintain CMS certification." The only ground stated for the department to act against a facility's own license is "Notwithstanding the provisions of section 39-1303 , Idaho Code, the department may deny any application or revoke any license when persuaded by evidence that such conditions exist as to endanger the health or safety of any resident or patient. A license issued pursuant to this chapter shall remain in force until the license is voluntarily surrendered or the facility fails to meet CMS certification standards." — a state ground for revoking a facility's license, not a resident's own grounds for being transferred or discharged. No current Idaho statute or administrative rule located for this page enumerates permissible grounds for a facility to transfer or discharge a resident; the federal floor is assembled on the federal page.
- Notice stated in the sources
- No current Idaho statute or administrative rule located for this page states an advance-notice period, required notice contents, or stated exceptions for a resident facing involuntary transfer or discharge. IDAPA 16.03.26, the Department's current Medicaid Plan Benefits rule, states a nursing facility's own reporting duty toward the Department rather than any notice duty toward a resident: "Each NF administrator, or their authorized representative must report the following information to the Department within three (3) working days of the date a NF is aware of:" — including "Any participant readmission, discharge, or any temporary absence due to hospitalization or therapeutic home visit." That is a billing-and-eligibility report from the facility to the state, not a notice to the resident, and it carries no advance-notice period, no stated contents, and no stated exceptions. The federal floor's notice requirements are assembled on the federal page.
- Hearing office in these sources
- The Department of Health and Welfare's own Appeals and Fair Hearings page states its own scope plainly: "This page explains how to file an appeal for an eligibility decision for public assistance programs." Its listed programs are cash assistance, child care assistance, child support, food assistance, and Medicaid eligibility and benefits; none names a nursing-facility resident's appeal of a transfer or discharge decision. The Office of Administrative Hearings' own "About Common Case Types" page states, "The Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) handles a wide range of legal disputes between individuals or businesses and Idaho state agencies." Its list includes professional licensing, public benefits and eligibility, employment matters, regulatory compliance, Medicaid provider cases, child support enforcement, and, under "Other Contested Matters", "Spacing and integration in oil & gas matters", "School district boundaries", "Driver's license suspensions, including CDLs (other than Administrative License Suspensions)", and "Government contract or procurement challenges" — again with no nursing-facility transfer-or-discharge appeal named. No current Idaho statute, rule, or agency page located for this page names an office that hears such an appeal or a route for filing one. The federal floor's hearing provisions are assembled on the federal page.
- Ombudsman in these sources
- The Idaho Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, housed at the Idaho Commission on Aging, states of itself: "However to ensure that we still have our rights, Idaho's Long-Term Care Ombudsmen are available to protect our health, safety, and welfare, when residing in a facility." Its stated duties: "Advocate for the rights of residents", "Investigate complaints", "Provide consultations", "Visit each facility at least once per quarter". The Commission's own staff page names "Fanny Rodriguez-Melnikovsky" as "Idaho Long-Term Care Ombudsman". The Commission's own published agency contact: "Idaho Commission on Aging" "6305 W Overland Rd Ste 110" "Boise, ID 83709" "(208) 334-3833" "(877) 471-2777" "(208) 334-3033". The same staff page's own "Stay Safe" program contact block instead prints "(208) 555-5678" as the number to call for the Ombudsman's team — a number following the same templated pattern (555-1234, 555-3456, 555-5678, 555-9012) shared identically across all four of the Commission's program teams, unlike any individual staff member's own published number on the same page; shown as published, not reconciled or asserted to be a working number.
- Sources last checked
- Sep 2, 2026
Reproduced from the agencies' own pages and documents quoted below, potentially relevant official sources, not a determination that any notice, ground, or deadline applies to any situation.
Lede
This page assembles what Idaho's own publishers currently state about involuntary transfer and discharge from a nursing facility. It is a baseline page: the docket rows and the source map are built; the grounds section and the published-process section are not yet written, as the change log records. Idaho's fullest single source on the underlying question is not a rule that answers it, but the 2025 act that removed the rule that once did: Senate Bill No. 1015, enacted as 2025 Session Laws chapter 122 and effective July 1, 2025, made IDAPA 16.03.02 — the chapter that had licensed skilled nursing facilities under the Department of Health and Welfare's own administrative code — null and void (quoted in the docket above), and replaced it with Idaho Code Title 39, Chapter 13, now titled the "Streamlined Facilities Licensing and Inspection Act.", which licenses a nursing facility on Medicare/Medicaid certification alone and states nothing of its own about grounds, notice, or a resident's right to appeal a facility's transfer or discharge decision. Bed-hold sits with a different publisher and a different program: IDAPA 16.03.26, "Medicaid Plan Benefits", Division of Medicaid, which pays a nursing facility to reserve a bed during a resident's "temporary absence" under stated conditions, captured here for the section this page does not yet carry. The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program's contact sits with a third publisher, the Idaho Commission on Aging. Three publishers, and Idaho's own current law states none of the four questions this project tracks about a facility-initiated transfer or discharge — grounds, notice, and a hearing route — beyond what a Medicare/Medicaid-certified facility owes under federal law. The federal floor for such facilities is assembled separately on the federal page; nothing here fills a gap from federal law or another state. Confirm applicability with the agencies named in the sources: whether any provision applies to a particular facility, resident, or notice is for the hearing office to determine. Deadlines and periods on this page are quoted from the sources, not calculated for any case.
Source map
| Document | Publisher and location | Source's own date | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Session Laws 2025, chapter 122 (Senate Bill No. 1015, as enacted) | Idaho State Legislature | SECTION 46 states an effective date of July 1, 2025 | 2026-09-02 |
| Idaho Code Title 39, Chapter 13 — §§ 39-1301, 39-1302, 39-1303, 39-1304, 39-1305, 39-1309 | Idaho State Legislature | each section's own History line; added or redesignated 2025, ch. 122 | 2026-09-02 |
| IDAPA 16.03.26, Medicaid Plan Benefits (Nursing Facilities sub-area, §§ 470-499) | Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Division of Medicaid | each rule paragraph dated "(7-1-26)" | 2026-09-02 |
| Appeals and Fair Hearings | Idaho Department of Health and Welfare | "Page last updated: 6-15-2026" | 2026-09-02 |
| About Common Case Types | Idaho Office of Administrative Hearings | "last updated: August 12, 2025" | 2026-09-02 |
| Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program | Idaho Commission on Aging | "last updated: December 2, 2025" | 2026-09-02 |
| Our Staff | Idaho Commission on Aging | "last updated: July 14, 2025" | 2026-09-02 |
Captured: all seven, in tools/packets/idaho-packet.txt. Pending: Idaho Code §§ 39-1306 through 39-1308 (penalty and injunction provisions, checked and found to add nothing to this page's docket); the individual State Long-Term Care Ombudsman's own direct phone number, not located on any captured page; and Internet Archive submission — per the packet's pending list. The packet's pending list also records a page checked and deliberately excluded rather than pending: aging.idaho.gov's own "Nursing Home Discharge Fact Sheet", which its own last page credits to a third-party advocacy organization restating federal law, not to Idaho's own statement.
Change log
2026-09-02 — Baseline page built from the first Idaho packet: docket, lede, source map, change log. Not yet captured or written: section 01 (the grounds, as Idaho describes them) and section 02 (the published process, including the notice's required contents in full, bed-hold and return, and the notice-periods register) — both sections would, on Idaho's current sources, consist almost entirely of stated absences, which the docket already records. Transports: Source 1 (the enacted Senate Bill No. 1015) was retrieved as a PDF from legislature.idaho.gov by the session fetch tool and converted to text with pdftotext -layout. Source 2 (Idaho Code §§ 39-1301 through 39-1309, excluding 39-1306 through 39-1308) and Sources 4 through 7 (the Department of Health and Welfare's Appeals and Fair Hearings page, the Office of Administrative Hearings' About Common Case Types page, and the Idaho Commission on Aging's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program and Our Staff pages) were retrieved by curl with a browser user-agent and extracted by stripping HTML tags and collapsing whitespace, mechanically; all rendered fully to curl with no browser tool needed. Source 3 (IDAPA 16.03.26, Medicaid Plan Benefits) was retrieved as a PDF from adminrules.idaho.gov by curl with a browser user-agent and converted to text with pdftotext -layout; the 11,691-line chapter is excerpted to its cover page, its general provisions, its "Facility" definition, and the complete Nursing Facilities sub-area, as the capture notes describe. Findings: (1) Idaho's entire state-specific framework for a facility-initiated transfer or discharge — the grounds a facility could state, the notice a resident was owed, and the resident's own right to appeal — sat in IDAPA 16.03.02, and Senate Bill No. 1015 made that chapter "null," "void, and of no force and effect" (quoted in full in the docket above) effective July 1, 2025; the replacement statute, Idaho Code Title 39, Chapter 13, licenses a facility on federal certification alone and states none of the three in its own words. This is a legislative act reducing the state's own published law, not a capture failure: both the repealing act and the replacement statute were captured in full and read for exactly this content. (2) Neither of the two Idaho agency pages that describe the state's administrative-hearing apparatus — the Department of Health and Welfare's Appeals and Fair Hearings page and the Office of Administrative Hearings' About Common Case Types page — names a nursing-facility resident's appeal of a transfer or discharge decision among the case types either page describes; both state their own scope in enough detail that the absence reads as a stated boundary rather than an incomplete list. (3) IDAPA 16.03.26 states a Medicaid bed-hold benefit, section 495, "NF: PAYMENTS FOR TEMPORARY ABSENCES." (rendered in full capitals in the source, reproduced as printed), but on its own terms it pays for reserve bed days only "if the NF charges private pay patients for reserve bed days", and its only stated time limit covers "therapeutic home visits for residents up to three (3) days per visit, not exceeding fifteen (15) days per calendar year" — no separate leave-day allowance for a hospitalization was located in this chapter, unlike Maine's and North Dakota's Medicaid manuals, each of which states a specific hospital bed-hold day count. Captured here for section 02, not asserted as this page's docket. (4) The Commission on Aging's own "Our Staff" page prints a phone number, "(208) 555-5678", for its "Stay Safe" program team (which includes the named State Long-Term Care Ombudsman) that follows the same templated placeholder pattern — 555-1234, 555-3456, 555-5678, 555-9012 — repeated identically across all four of the Commission's program teams, and unlike every individual staff member's own directly published number on the same page; quoted as published, not reconciled and not asserted to reach anyone. (5) Source 1's own printed text carries a line number in the left margin of every line, and the SECTION 42 sentence nullifying IDAPA 16.03.02 wraps across that margin twice; the quotation on this page is therefore three contiguous fragments split exactly where the bill's own line numbers fall, rather than a single unbroken quotation, on the same reasoning as this project's other capture-artifact findings. (6) Idaho Code § 39-1304's own published text carries an extra space before a comma, "section 39-1303 , Idaho Code," left by the source page's own hyperlinked citation; reproduced as extracted rather than corrected. Capture pending: per the source map. Internet Archive: not yet submitted. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, review pending before publication. Corrections: hello@fieldassembly.net.