Budget Amendment ID: FY2020-S3-31-R1

Redraft OTH 31

Relative to Increasing the Efficiency of Nursing Home Acuity Reporting

Messrs. Tarr, Tran, Moore, deMacedo, Humason, Eldridge, O'Connor, Feeney and Finegold moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section 75 the following section:-

"SECTION 75A. The office of MassHealth shall evaluate the feasibility of utilizing a single form by the division and the federal Department of Health and Human Services to: (i) collect resident care information including, but not limited to, case-mix information to be used for resident reimbursement; and (ii) set the nursing component of the Medicaid skilled nursing facility rate. The evaluation shall also include the projected fiscal impact of utilizing the  federally required Long Term Care Minimum Data Set acuity tool.

Not later than May 1, 2020, the office shall report its findings to the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives, the joint committee on health care financing and the senate and house committees on ways and means.”.