Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-469-R1

Redraft EHS 469

Home Care Rate Equalization

Ms. Lovely, Messrs. Moore, Lewis and Humason, Ms. L'Italien, Messrs. Eldridge, Joyce and McGee, Ms. O'Connor Ives, Ms. Gobi, Messrs. Fattman, Brady and Welch and Ms. Creem moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 9110-1633, by adding at the end thereof the following: “provided further, notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, effective July 1, 2016, and for successive fiscal years, the care management component of the rate for elders who qualify for the enhanced community options program, shall be increased in equal increments over the course of fiscal years 2017 and 2018 to equal the care management component of the rate for the Community Choices program in item 4000-0600, and that the care management rate for the Community Choices program shall not be less than the rate effective on January 1, 2015”; and in said item, by striking out the figures “$51,482,919” and inserting in place thereof the figures “$53,948,641”