Budget Amendment ID: FY2020-S3-9

OTH 9

Relating to Comprehensive Cancer Center Care

Messrs. Collins, Keenan and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended by adding the following new section:

"Section XX. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the executive office of health and human services shall require Medicaid and any carrier or other entity that contracts with the office of Medicaid to pay for or arrange for the purchase of health care services to reimburse any freestanding comprehensive cancer center in the commonwealth, as defined in section 1 of chapter 6D, in an amount that is not less than that percentage of its allowable costs for outpatient services for a fiscal year that is established for such fiscal year by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,, with “allowable costs” being determined in accordance with the Medicare cost-based reimbursement methodology as used by said federal agency for determining allowable outpatient costs."