Amendment ID: S2025-8

Amendment 8

Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Medicaid Funding

Messrs. Welch, Humason, Rodrigues and Montigny, Ms. Chandler, Messrs. Timilty, deMacedo, Keenan, Lesser and McGee, Ms. Gobi, Messrs. Moore, Ross and Petruccelli, Ms. O'Connor Ives, Mr. Rush, Ms. Flanagan, Ms. Lovely, Ms. Chang-Diaz, Messrs. Lewis, Wolf and Eldridge, Ms. Forry and Ms. Donoghue move to amend the bill (Senate, No. 2025) by inserting at the end thereof the following section:-

SECTION XX. Item 4000-0700 of said section 2 in said chapter 46 is hereby amended by inserting after the words “neonatal intensive care unit cases” the following words:-

;provided further, that MassHealth shall expend not less than $11,000,000 for payments in addition to its standard payment amount per discharge, or SPAD, above rate year 2013, or of reimbursement provided under any subsequent inpatient payment methodologies, and to provide additional payments above its standard outpatient payment amount per episode, or PAPE, above rate year 2013, 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