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Initial Gross Payment to Qualifying Acute Care Hospitals
SECTION 279.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller shall transfer on or before June 30, 2004, without further appropriation, $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund, established pursuant to section 18 of chapter 118G of the General Laws, for the purpose of making initial gross payments to qualifying acute care hospitals for the hospital fiscal year beginning October 1, 2003. Said payments shall be made to hospitals prior to, and in anticipation of, the payment by hospitals of their gross liability to said fund. The comptroller shall transfer from said fund to the General Fund not later than June 30, 2004, the amount of the transfer authorized herein and any allocation thereof as certified by the commissioner of the division of health care finance and policy.
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