HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3803        FILED ON: 1/16/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 138

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to nursing facility reporting..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION  1.  Chapter 118E of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 14A the following section:-

Section 14B.  The division shall promulgate rules and regulations to provide for a single form to be used by the division and the United States Department of Health and Human Services to collect resident care information, including but not limited to, case-mix information as defined by the division to be used for resident reimbursement.