SENATE DOCKET, NO. 459        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Michael O. Moore

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to the equitable assignment of MassHealth enrollees.

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PETITION OF:

SENATE DOCKET, NO. 459        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 620

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)

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An Act relative to the equitable assignment of MassHealth enrollees.

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

Chapter 118E of the Massachusetts General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after Section 77 the following new new section –:

Section 78.  Auto-Assignment for Medicaid Beneficiaries

The division shall make provisions to enroll those MassHealth beneficiaries who did not affirmatively select a managed care option into a Medicaid managed care organization that has contracted with the Commonwealth to deliver managed care services to eligible MassHealth beneficiaries, provided that the division shall give the Primary Care Clinician plan no greater preference than any single Medicaid managed care organization in such assignment process and shall divide said assigned members equally among the Primary Care Clinician Plan and individual Medicaid managed care organizations on a rotating basis.