Amendment #227 to H3400

Nursing Homes

[Sponsors] Representatives Costello of Newburyport, Peterson of Grafton, Golden of Lowell, Kane of Holyoke, Brady of Brockton, Nangle of Lowell, Scibak of South Hadley , Madden of Nantucket, Puppolo of Springfield, Ayers of Quincy, Alicea of Charlton, Koczera of New Bedford, Fresolo of Worcester, Kuros of Uxbridge, Levy of Marlborough, Sullivan of Fall River, Ehrlich of Marblehead, Forry of Dorchester, Canvan of Brockton and Smola of Palmer move to amend bill in section 2, in item 4000-0600, by adding the following: -

“provided further that effective July 1, 2011 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, the division of health care finance and policy shall establish nursing facility MassHealth rates that are $30 million in payments above the payments made to nursing facilities for the fiscal year ended 2011.”