Bill > H1135

This bill aims to address the financial stability of the health safety net by making changes to the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund and the Health Safety Net Trust Fund. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring that no less than the amounts specified in the existing law be annually transferred from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund to the Health Safety Net Trust Fund to provide payments to acute hospitals and community health centers for reimbursable health services. 2. Defining a "supplemental surcharge amount" as 50% of the annual revenue shortfall in the Health Safety Net Trust Fund, which will be paid by acute hospitals and surcharge payers. 3. Expanding the sources of funding for the Health Safety Net Trust Fund to include the supplemental surcharge amount, federal financial participation revenues, and any transfers from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund. 4. Requiring the Health Safety Net Office to allocate half of any projected funding shortfall to acute hospitals based on their proportional financial requirement for reimbursements, and the other half through the supplemental surcharge amount.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H1135