All payments to a contractor will end no later than sixty days after any of the following occurs:

     (1) A contract is terminated, assigned, or is not renewed;

     (2) A facility license is revoked; or

     (3) A facility is decertified as a Title XIX facility; except that, in situations where the department determines that residents must remain in such facility for a longer period because of the resident's health or safety, payments for such residents shall continue.

[1998 c 322 § 36; 1980 c 177 § 65.]