Budget Amendment ID: FY2019-S4-603

EHS 603

Preserving Access to Behavioral Health Services in Western Mass

Messrs. Welch, Lesser and Humason and Ms. Gobi moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0700, by inserting after the words “free care as determined by the executive office”, the following words:- “provided further, that not less than $4,000,000 shall be expended for disproportionate share payments for services provided at an acute care hospital located in Hampden County with an inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric unit;”.