4000-0641 MassHealth Nursing Home Supplemental Rates

For nursing facility Medicaid rates; provided, that in fiscal year 2026, the executive office of health and human services, in consultation with the center for health information and analysis, shall establish rates that cumulatively total not less than $342,100,000 more than the annual payment rates established under the rates in effect as of June 30, 2002; provided further, that not less than $25,000,000 shall be expended in base rates for additional payments over the rate established in October 2024 to reflect nursing facility resident care and workforce costs including wages, hiring of staff and training for nursing facility workers; provided further, that the executive office shall expend not less than $102,000,000 more for nursing facility rates than in fiscal year 2025; provided further, that an amount for expenses related to the collection and administration of assessments under section 63 of chapter 118E of the General Laws shall be transferred to the executive office; and provided further, that the payments made under this item shall be allocated in an amount sufficient to implement section 622 of chapter 151 of the acts of 1996