Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-847-R1

Redraft EHS 847

Rural Health Equal Access to CHART Funding

Mr. Downing moved that the proposed new text be amended <w:p><w:r><w:t xml:space="preserve">moved that the bill be amended by inserting at the end thereof the following section:-

SECTION X. Section 2GGGG of chapter 29 of the general laws is hereby amended in subsection d, by inserting at the end thereof the following:-

The commission may award a grant to a non-profit teaching hospital whose relative prices are at or below the state median price if said non-profit teaching hospital is the sole acute hospital in a 20-mile radius.