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Chief Patron: Watkins
Item 307 #33s

Health And Human Resources
FY 12-13
FY 13-14
Department Of Medical Assistance Services
$33,698,383
$33,883,328
$34,296,475
$34,487,336
GF
NGF

Language:
Page 225, line 49, strike "$7,438,749,436" and insert "$7,506,331,147".
Page 225, line 49, strike "$9,042,320,948" and insert "$9,111,104,759".
Page 238, line 6, after "rates" strike the remainder of the line and insert:
"will receive inflation updates intended to maintain fiscal year 2012 levels of payment adequacy (Medicaid payments relative to allowable costs). To achieve this objective - based on the most recent Medicaid hospital cost information and health care inflation indices used by the Department of Medical Assistance Services - the incremental inflation updates will be 2.6 percent in fiscal year 2013 and fiscal year 2014."
Page 238, strike lines 7 and 8.
Page 238, line 9, after "rates", insert:
"to no more than $15 million from the general fund and $15 million from nongeneral funds for fiscal year 2013 and fiscal year 2014".
Page 238, line 13, after "that", strike the remainder of the line and insert:
"the hospital rebasing that is currently scheduled for fiscal year 2014 will be deferred until fiscal year 2015."
Page 238, strike lines 14 and 15.

Explanation:
(This amendment provides funding in each year to partially restore payment reductions to hospitals and nursing homes contained in the introduced budget. It provides limited inflationary adjustments to hospital and nursing home payments to preserve access to essential health services by maintaining current Medicaid payment adequacy for hospital and long term care services and ensuring that the gap between Medicaid payments and costs of delivery do not worsen.)

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