Bill > H595

This bill aims to address the financial sustainability of the Health Safety Net Trust Fund, which provides payments to acute hospitals and community health centers for reimbursable health services to uninsured and underinsured residents. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring at least the minimum annual transfer amounts specified in state law to be transferred from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund to the Health Safety Net Trust Fund. 2. Defining a "supplemental surcharge amount" as 50% of any annual revenue shortfall in the Health Safety Net Trust Fund, to be paid by acute hospitals and surcharge payers. 3. Specifying that the Health Safety Net Trust Fund shall consist of the total surcharge amount, supplemental surcharge amount, appropriations, transfers from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund, and federal financial participation revenues. 4. Requiring the Health Safety Net Office to allocate half of any projected shortfall in the Trust Fund directly to hospitals based on their proportional financial requirements, and the other half through the supplemental surcharge.

Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H595