4000-0641 MassHealth Nursing Home Supplemental Rates

For nursing facility Medicaid rates; provided, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, in fiscal year 2020 the executive office of health and human services, in consultation with the center for health information and analysis, shall establish nursing facility Medicaid rates that cumulatively total at least $327,100,000 more than the annual payment rates established under the rates in effect as of June 30, 2002; provided further, that not less than $38,300,000 shall be expended to fund a rate-add on for wages, benefits and related employee costs of direct care staff of nursing homes; provided further, that MassHealth shall adopt all additional regulations and procedures to carry out this section; and provided further, that the payments made pursuant to this item shall be allocated in an amount sufficient to implement section 622 of chapter 151 of the acts of 1996