Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-839

EHS 839

Home Nursing MassHealth Rates

Ms. O'Connor Ives moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0600, moved that the bill be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0600, by adding after the word "income" the following words:-"provided further, that funding from this item shall be provided for the purpose of recruitment and retention of home health nurses in accordance with 114.3 CMR 50.00, and that said funds authorized herein shall be restorative to said regulation prior to its amendment made in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 29, Section 9C and effective December 1, 2008, and shall bne in addition to any amount appropriated in this item for the purose of providing Title XIX service to patients; and provided further that the fund authorized herein shall be eligibile for federal financial participation"