Budget Amendment ID: FY2016-S3-809-R1

Redraft EHS 809

Home Health Care Pilot Program

Mr. Timilty moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0300, by adding at the end thereof the following: “provided further, that the executive office of health and human services shall expend not less than $100,000 to develop a pilot program in Norfolk County for the purpose of incentivizing independent home health care nurses to work with patients with rare diseases and disorders, including but not limited to, Rett Syndrome and mitochondrial diseases; provided further, that in the development of this the program, the executive office shall review the reimbursement rates for independent home care nurses and consider restructuring the rate system so that independent home care nurses who agree to treat patients with more severe needs are compensated at a higher rate”; and in said section 2, in said item 4000-0300, by striking out the figures "$90,898,463" and inserting in place thereof the figures "$90,998,463".