Budget Amendment ID: FY2016-S3-915-R1

Redraft EHS 915

Nursing Facility Wage Passthrough

Ms. Chandler, Messrs. Moore and Lewis, Mrs. L'Italien, Ms. Gobi, Messrs. Rush, Keenan, Wolf, McGee and Rodrigues, Ms. Donoghue, Ms. Flanagan, Messrs. Montigny and Eldridge, Ms. Lovely, Mr. Kennedy, Ms. O'Connor Ives, Ms. Forry, Messrs. Pacheco, deMacedo, Barrett, Lesser, Brownsberger, Welch, Timilty, Hedlund, Donnelly and Humason moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0640, by adding the following words:- “provided further, that not less than $5,000,000, or 70 per cent of any supplemental rate reimbursements in excess of $291,600,000 made pursuant to this item in fiscal year 2016 shall be expended to fund a rate add-on for wages, benefits and related employee costs of direct care staff of nursing homes; provided further, that the MassHealth agency shall adopt all additional regulations and procedures necessary to carry out this section”; and

in said section 2, in said item 4000-0640, by striking out the figure “291,600,000” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “296,600,000”.