Budget Amendment ID: FY2012-S3-421

EHS 421

Teaching Community Health Centers

Ms. Chandler and Messrs. Moore and Finegold moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting, after Section ___, the following new section:-

"SECTION ___. Notwithstanding any general or special law or regulation to the contrary, the secretary of the  executive office of health and human services shall amend the medicaid waiver for the waiver years 2012, 2013, and 2014 to include a pilot project amendment to fund teaching community health centers with a residency program in primary care or family medicine.  The health centers for the project shall maintain accreditation, through the demonstration waiver years, as either an independent teaching community health center or as a teaching community health center accredited through an affiliation with a Commonwealth funded medical school or licensed as part of a teaching hospital.  Each qualified teaching community health center will be given a grant of $1.5m for the 1115 demonstration waiver years of 2012, 2013, and 2014.”