Budget Amendment ID: FY2013-S4-505

EHS 505

Protecting MassHealth Acute Care Hospital Rates

Messrs. Rodrigues and Michael O. Moore moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0500, by inserting, after the word "patients", the following:- "provided further that the executive office shall maintain the acute care hospital reimbursement for capital costs in the development of the RY2013 Acute Hospital RFA at rates no less than those paid in rate year RY2012, shall reimburse for outpatient visits within 3 days of an inpatient visit, and further shall not include a penalty for readmissions, for those hospitals as defined in section 1 of chapter 118G."