Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-531

EHS 531

Increased Funding for Medicaid Inpatient Behavioral Health Services and Community Based Providers

Mr. Joyce moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0300, by inserting the following:- “provided further that as an initial step toward achieving parity in reimbursement rates for behavioral health services, EOHHS shall provide no later than October 1, 2016 an additional $7 million increase to reimbursement rates for hospital-based inpatient behavioral health services in addition to other customary payment rate adjustments to hospital reimbursement methodologies; and provided further an additional $7 million shall be used to increase reimbursement rates in addition to other customary payment rate adjustments to cover the cost of primary care and community-based outpatient and diversionary behavioral health services;”