Budget Amendment ID: FY2021-S4-285

EHS 285

Nursing Home Regulation Safeguards

Mr. Tarr and Ms. Gobi moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4510-0100, by inserting after the words “of the resolves of 2016”, the following:- "provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department shall not amend, modify or replace the regulations of 105 CMR 150.000 unless and until it conducts a cost-benefit analysis of any proposed changes which shall include but not be limited to: the cost of compliance with such regulations for facilities and the MassHealth program, the near and long-term impacts on resident quality of life, the stability of the state’s system of long-term care, the sustainability of skilled nursing facilities in the commonwealth, impacts on the state’s nursing home capacity, and the health and psychological benefits of any proposed changes in the dimensional requirements for patient rooms, including the suppression and/or prevention of contiguous disease transmission. Said analysis shall be filed with the clerks of the House and Senate, the House and Senate Committees on Ways and Means, and the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing."