Amendment #98 to H4100

Relative to equitable enrollments in MassHealth

Representatives Donato of Medford, Puppolo of Springfield, Finn of West Springfield, Collins of Boston, Michlewitz of Boston and Mahoney of Worcester moves to amend the bill by inserting after section X X  the following section:                                                                                                                                                                          Chapter 118E is hereby amended by inserting after Section X the following new Section –:

Section 56.  Auto-Assignment for Medicaid Beneficiaries

Beginning July 1, 2012 and until such time as the Managed Care Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section 178 of Chapter 131 of the Acts of 2010 has filed its report with the legislature, 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 MCO 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.