Budget Amendment ID: FY2012-S3-458

EHS 458

Ophthalmic Care

Mr. Joyce moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after Section 152, the following new Section:-

"Section ____.  Section 36 of Chapter 118E of the Massachusetts General Laws is hereby amended by inserting the following after the last paragraph of said section:

"The MassHealth Program is hereby directed to immediately promulgate regulations to allow single specialty ambulatory surgery centers which are licensed by the Department of Public Health as clinics to provide ophthalmic procedures, to enroll in the MassHealth as Medicaid providers."