Budget Amendment ID: FY2013-S4-629

EHS 629

MassHealth Continuity of Care Study

Messrs. Eldridge and Brownsberger and Ms. Jehlen and Ms. Clark and Mr. DiDomenico moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting, after Section 161, the following new Section:-

SECTION____.Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the executive office of health and human services shall conduct an investigation of all federal and state assistance programs to determine which have eligibility requirements within the requirements MassHealth and which could feasibly share data with the MassHealth program for purposes of renewing eligible children and their eligible parents in MassHealth through the express-lane eligibility option created under the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (PL 111-3). The office shall submit a report on the results of that investigation to the house and senate committees on ways and means, the joint committee on health care financing, the joint committee on children and families and persons with disabilities and the house and senate clerks not later than April 1, 2013.