Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-328

EHS 328

Stabilizing of State Nursing Facilities

Messrs. McGee, Boncore, Eldridge and Cyr, Ms. Flanagan, Messrs. Lewis and Timilty, Ms. Lovely, Messrs. O'Connor and Lesser moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0641, by adding at the end thereof the following: “provided that effective July 1, 2017 the executive office of health and human services shall expend in MassHealth nursing facility rates not less than $17.8 million over the amount spent in state fiscal year 2017 to fund the Medicaid share of the nursing home assessment established by section 63 of chapter 118E of the General Laws” and in said item, by striking out figures "345,100,000" and inserting in place thereof the figures "$362,900,000"