Section 73 Personal Care Attendant Program Sustainable Growth
Chapter 118E of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 13L, the following section:-
Section 13M. The executive office shall implement cost containment measures annually to ensure that the annual cost growth of the personal care attendant program does not exceed the health care cost growth benchmark established under section 9 of chapter 6D.
No later than January 31 of each year, the executive office shall file a report with the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the following: (i) actual cost of personal care attendant services, in both fee-for-service and managed care, for the prior state fiscal year; (ii) projected cost of personal care attendant services, in both fee-for-service and managed care, in the current state fiscal year; (iii) projected cost of personal care attendant services, in both fee-for-service and managed care, in the next state fiscal year; and (iv) cost containment measures that will be implemented in regulation for the upcoming fiscal year to ensure the cost growth of the personal care attend program does not exceed the health care cost growth benchmark established under section 9 of chapter 6D. Said report shall also be posted on the website of the executive office.
Summary
This section requires MassHealth to implement measures to ensure the cost growth of the Personal Care Attendant Program does not exceed the annual health care benchmark established by the Health Policy Commission.