1595-1068 - Medical Assistance Trust Fund
| Account | Description | FY 2018 Spending |
FY 2019 House 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1595-1068 | Medical Assistance Trust Fund For an operating transfer to the MassHealth provider payment account in the Medical Assistance Trust Fund established in section 2QQQ of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided, that these funds shall be expended for services provided during state or federal fiscal year 2018 or 2019 or for public hospital transformation and incentive initiative payments for state fiscal year 2018 or 2019 or for Medicaid care organization payments under 42 CFR 438.6(c) for rate year 2018 or 2019; provided further, that all payments from the Medical Assistance Trust Fund shall be: (i) subject to the availability of federal financial participation; (ii) made only under federally-approved payment methods; (iii) consistent with federal funding requirements and all federal payment limits as determined by the secretary of health and human services; and (iv) subject to the terms and conditions of an agreement with the executive office of health and human services; and provided further, that the secretary of health and human services will utilize funds from the Medical Assistance Trust Fund to make payments of up to $443,750,000 to the Cambridge public health commission or to Medicaid care organizations for payment to the Cambridge public health commission if the Cambridge public health commission, in anticipation of receiving such payments, first voluntarily transfers an amount equal to the non-federal share of such payments to the Medical Assistance Trust Fund using a federally-permissible source of funds |
747,100,000 | 452,450,000 |
Decreased funding to support projected costs.
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