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Budget Recommendations
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Outside Section 359
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Intergovernmental Transfer - Acute Care Hospitals
SECTION 359.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the division of medical assistance may expend, subject to federal approval, an amount not to exceed $172,000,000 from the medical assistance intergovernmental transfer account within the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund for Title XIX payments to certain acute care hospitals. The payments shall be established in accordance with Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, or any successor federal statute, any regulations promulgated thereunder, the commonwealth's Title XIX state plan, and the terms and conditions of agreements reached with the division for such payments. No such funds shall be expended unless the acute care hospital has executed the division of medical assistance's current Acute Hospital Request for Applications and Contract, and unless a public entity is legally obligated to make an intergovernmental funds transfer in an amount specified in an agreement with such entity, which amount shall be not less than 50 per cent of the Title XIX payment. All revenues generated pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be credited to the medical assistance intergovernmental transfer account and administered in accordance with the provisions of subsection (o) of section 18 of chapter 118G of the General Laws. An accounting of such payments shall be reported quarterly to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means.
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