Budget Amendment ID: FY2016-S3-759

EHS 759

Community Health Center Rates

Mrs. L'Italien and Ms. Lovely moved that the proposed new text be amended by creating a new section XX:- "In order to promote community health centers as an important component of bending the cost curve and investing in the patient centered medical home model, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall increase community health center rates by October 1, 2015 by four (4) percent in FY16 and by no less than four (4) percent annually thereafter. The Secretary is required to review the adequacy of health center rates bi-annually."