HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4516 FILED ON: 8/9/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4054
Section 87 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2024 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain permanent improvements (see House, No. 4040), which had been returned by Her Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message see Attachment G of House, No. 4055). August 9, 2023. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)
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An Act relative to the rate of payment for certain MassHealth ground ambulance services.
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to require MassHealth ground ambulance services provided to fee-for-service and managed care plan members who are also Medicare eligible to be paid at the Medicare rate, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
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. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, all ambulance ground transportation provided to MassHealth fee-for-service and managed care plan members who are also Medicare eligible shall be paid at the applicable Medicare rate.