Amendment #546 to H3400

Bed Hold Reimbursements for MassHealth Recipients at Nursing Home Facilities

Representatives Hogan of Stow, Peake of Provincetown, Cusack of Braintree, Benson of Lunenburg, Canavan of Brockton, McMurtry of Dedham, O'Day of West Boylston, DiNatale of Fitchburg, Fernandes of Milford, Dwyer of Woburn, Beaton of Shrewsbury, Heroux of Attleboro, Garry of Dracut, Atkins of Concord, Ferguson of Holden, Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, Cantwell of Marshfield, Scaccia of Boston, Walsh of Framingham, Poirier of North Attleborough, Andrews of Orange, D'Emilia of Bridgewater, Smizik of Brookline, Peisch of Wellesley, Nyman of Hanover, Schmid of Westport, Devers of Lawrence and Khan of Newton move to amend the bill in Section 2, in item 4000-0640, in line 12, by inserting after the words “the acts of 1996” the following:

“provided further, that funds shall be expended in an amount not less than that appropriated in fiscal year 2013 for purposes of reimbursing nursing facilities for up to and including 10 calendar days per medical event. The division shall reimburse the nursing facility for the medical leave of absence, which shall include an observation stay in a hospital in excess of twenty-four hours, at the recipients pre-absence rate during the medical leave and upon the residents return. In the event that a nursing facility resident who is a MassHealth recipient leaves the nursing facility for non-medical reasons, the division shall pay to preserve his or her bed in the facility for a period of up to and including 10 days per year;”