Bill > H1363

This bill aims to extend enhanced Medicaid payments to eligible hospitals by directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make monthly payments equal to 5% of each eligible hospital's average monthly Medicaid payments from the previous year. The bill specifically defines eligible hospitals as non-profit or municipal acute care hospitals licensed under certain state regulations that previously received enhanced Medicaid payments in 2021 and 2022. The total amount of these supplemental payments is capped at $35 million per fiscal year, and the payments are designed to be additional funds that do not offset or replace existing Medicaid payments. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is granted the authority to set reasonable conditions for receiving these payments to ensure federal financial participation, and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services can create necessary regulations to implement the program. Importantly, these enhanced payments cannot be used to calculate future average monthly payments, which helps prevent the supplemental funds from becoming a permanent base in future payment calculations.

Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H1363