Amendment #1001 to H4000

Nursing Home Stabilization

Representatives Golden of Lowell, Nangle of Lowell, Arciero of Westford, Fiola of Fall River, Calter of Kingston, Honan of Boston, O'Day of West Boylston, Peterson of Grafton, Nyman of Hanover, Miceli of Wilmington, Roy of Franklin, Silvia of Fall River, Conroy of Wayland, Puppolo of Springfield, Ehrlich of Marblehead, Cusack of Braintree, McMurtry of Dedham, Lyons of Andover, Lombardo of Billerica, Vega of Holyoke, Zlotnik of Gardner, Cantwell of Marshfield, Cole of Peabody, Smola of Warren, Boldyga of Southwick, DiNatale of Fitchburg, Ashe of Longmeadow, Cariddi of North Adams, Heroux of Attleboro, Petrolati of Ludlow, Curran of Springfield, Naughton of Clinton, Beaton of Shrewsbury, Scibak of South Hadley, Turner of Dennis, Ayers of Quincy, Timilty of Milton, Kafka of Stoughton, Speliotis of Danvers, Gordon of Bedford, Garballey of Arlington, Stanley of Waltham, Garry of Dracut, Parisella of Beverly, DiZoglio of Methuen, Coppinger of Boston, Durant of Spencer, Chan of Quincy, Frost of Auburn, Peake of Provincetown, Barrows of Mansfield, Linsky of Natick, Walsh of Framingham, Fernandes of Milford, Gregoire of Marlborough, Smizik of Brookline, Dwyer of Woburn, Cutler of Duxbury and Madden of Nantucket move that the bill be amended in Section 2 in line item 4000-0600, in lines, 31-36,

inclusive by striking out the text contained therein and inserting in place there of the following:

“and provided further that effective July 1, 2014 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, the executive office of health and human services shall establish nursing facility Medicaid rates that are no less than $47,476,982 in payments above the payments made to nursing facilities for the fiscal year ended 2014, for the purpose of updating the base year to calendar year 2007 costs.”; by striking out Section 91; and in Section 92 by striking out the following date “January 1, 2015”.