Budget Amendment ID: FY2012-S3-483
EHS 483
Home Health Rates
Mr. Michael O. Moore moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0600, by inserting after the word "Income" the following words:- “provided further, that funding from this item shall be provided for the purpose of recruitment and retention of home health nurses in accordance with 114.3 CMR 50.00, and that said funds authorized herein shall be restorative to said regulation prior to its amendment made in accordance with MGL c. 29 § 9C and effective December 1, 2008, and shall be in addition to any amount appropriated in this item for the purpose of providing Title XIX services to patients; and provided further that the funds authorized herein shall be eligible for federal financial participation”; and in said item by striking the figure “2,495,602,264” and inserting in place thereof the following figure “2,502,702,264”.