Bill > H1217

This bill aims to address the financial sustainability of the Health Safety Net, which provides payments to acute hospitals and community health centers for reimbursable health services for uninsured and underinsured residents. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Requiring the transfer of no less than the amounts specified in the law to the Health Safety Net Trust Fund from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund to support the payments to acute hospitals and community health centers. 2. Defining a "supplemental surcharge amount" as 50% of the annual revenue shortfall in the Health Safety Net Trust Fund, to be paid by acute hospitals and surcharge payors. 3. Expanding the sources of funding for the Health Safety Net Trust Fund, including the new supplemental surcharge amount, federal financial participation revenues, and appropriations. 4. Establishing a mechanism for the Health Safety Net Office to allocate any projected funding shortfall, with half of the shortfall being distributed to hospitals based on their proportional financial requirement for reimbursements, and the other half being covered by the new supplemental surcharge amount.

Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H1217