Amendment #884 to H4000

Disproportionate Share Hospital Rate Increase

Mr. Mariano of Quincy moves to amend the bill in section 2, in  item  4000-0700, in line 32, by inserting after "goals"  the following: "provided further, that MassHealth shall expend not less than $13,683,965 to provide an additional 5 per cent of its standard payment amount per discharge, or SPAD, or of reimbursement provided under any subsequent inpatient payment methodologies and $12,332,013 to provide an additional 5 per cent of its outpatient payment amount per episode or PAPE, or of reimbursement provided under any subsequent outpatient payment methodologies to any acute care hospital that has greater than 63 per cent of its gross patient service revenue from governmental payers and free care as determined by the executive office of health and human services”.