Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-307
EHS 307
Behavioral Health Integration
Ms. Flanagan, Messrs. Moore, Brownsberger, Eldridge and Montigny 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 MassHealth shall expend up to $100,000 to identify regulatory and billing barriers to the integration of primary care and behavioral health and the solutions to eliminate said barriers; and provided further, that MassHealth shall report to the House and Senate Committees on Ways and Means and the Joint Committee on Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery by January 1, 2018 on said barriers and their plan to address and eliminate these barriers by June 30, 2018."