Amendment #252 to H3400

DHS Hospital Base Rate

Mr. Chan of Quincy moves to amend the bill, in Section 2, on page 50, in item 4000-0300, by striking the words in line 55 to line 63 and inserting in place thereof, the following words:-

 

"procedures and regulations of the department of mental health; provided further, that the office of Medicaid shall work with the managed care organizations that are under contract with the commonwealth to deliver managed care services to MassHealth enrollees and other relevant stakeholders to develop changes to Medicaid payment policies, quality improvement programs, and any other programmatic changes that would produce a minimum cost saving of $68 million across the Medicaid program sufficient to offset increased hospital base rates for any and all disproportionate share hospitals, so-called;"