An Arizona bill on ownership and closures, signed into law. Last moved June 19, 2026.
What this means for a building owner
This touches nursing homes and assisted living homes that serve long-term care Medicaid members and change hands. It only helps if the home is not under a suspension, a termination or a payment hold, and still has an active provider enrollment. There is no new payment amount here; the help is that claims keep getting paid under the old owner's number and contracts during the switch, with written notice due at least 60 days before the sale and answers to enrollment requests within 10 business days. The text does not say when this starts.
What the bill does
This new law covers what happens when a nursing home or assisted living home is sold. If the home still serves people in the state's long-term care Medicaid program, the new owner can ask the state and its health plans to keep paying claims under the old owner's provider number and contracts until the new owner's own enrollment is finished. The old or new owner has to give the state written notice at least 60 days before the sale, and answer enrollment requests within 10 business days.
Written by AI from the bill's own Chaptered text of June 24, 2026, on September 23, 2026. Not legal advice. Read the official text ›
Signed into law · last moved June 19, 2026 · no effective date stated yet
Arizona has 140 certified nursing homes.
Official title ALTCS; providers; change of ownership
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What this affects
- Who pays, or is paid
- Buyers, sellers and lenders. Who may own a building in Arizona, and what a transfer or closure must disclose.
- Which buildings
- 140 facilities holding 15,994 licensed beds in Arizona.
- The dollars, or the rule
- We cannot tell yet from the text. No dollar figure or threshold is stated in what we hold.
- Effective
- We cannot tell yet from the text. No effective date is stated yet.
- Status
- Signed into law, as of June 19, 2026.
Transactions, receiverships and closures reset who owns the market in a county.
Latest action, June 19, 2026: Chapter 150
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Bill text and status: apps.azleg.gov · retrieved August 3, 2026