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Medicaid - Maximization of Third Party and Federal Revenue
SECTION 4.
Section 16 of chapter 6A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding at the end the following paragraph:-
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, state agencies and direct and subcontracted providers of health-related services, including purchase-of-service providers financed from appropriation items for any state agency, shall maximize Title XIX and all other federal, state and private health insurance coverage available to offset costs to the commonwealth in compliance with the requirements herein. The agencies or providers shall collect information from clients, or from the parent or guardian of a minor receiving services, necessary to determine the extent to which clients may be eligible for medical assistance benefits under chapter 118E or are beneficiaries of any health insurance policy. The agency or provider shall forward client information collected under this section to the executive office of health and human services and such data shall only be used to match against available databases for the purpose of identifying all sources of potential payment for health services or health insurance coverage. As required or permitted by federal law, the executive office of health and human services shall return the results of any such data matches to the originating agency, which shall take the appropriate action to ensure that costs to the commonwealth are minimized. Such actions shall include, but not be limited to, the agency or provider billing or re-billing all verified third-party sources. The executive office for administration and finance may grant an agency or provider an exemption from this section for good cause. The executive office of health and human services and the operational services division within the executive office for administration and finance shall review regulations, contracting forms, service delivery reports and uniform financial reporting requirements to determine what changes are necessary for the successful implementation of this section.
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Operational Services Division Renamed Division of Procurement
SECTION 7.
The General Laws shall be amended as follows:-
The term "division of procurement" shall be substituted for the term "operational services division" wherever it appears in sections 4A and 4L of chapter 7, in section 29G of chapter 29, in section 51 of chapter 30, and wherever else it appears in the General Laws.
In section 4A of chapter 7 the term "procurement" shall be substituted for the term "operational services" in the second sentence thereof, and the term "assistant secretary for procurement" shall be substituted for the term "assistant secretary for operational services" in the first sentence of subsection (a) thereof.
The term "chief procurement officer" shall be substituted for the term "state purchasing agent" and for the term "purchasing agent" wherever these terms appear in section 1, 6, 8, of chapter 5, in section 134 of chapter 6, in sections 4A, 15, 22, 22A, 22D, 22I, 25, 25A, 26, 27, 27A, 28, 29 of chapter 7, in section 24 of chapter 15A , in section 29G of chapter 29, in sections 35 and 52 of chapter 30, in section 15 of chapter 73, and wherever else it appears in the General Laws.
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Online Municipal Procurement Notices
SECTION 25.
Subsection (c) of section 5 of said chapter 30B, as so appearing, is hereby amended in the first sentence of clause (5) by inserting, after the words "governmental body", the following words "or, in the alternative, on a public internet web site of either the governmental body or of the Commonwealth".
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Freeze Special Education Provider Rates
SECTION 89.
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the division of purchased services of the division of procurement which, under section 274 of chapter 110 of the acts of 1993, is responsible for determining prices for programs under chapter 71B of the General Laws, shall set all such prices in fiscal year 2007 at the same level calculated for fiscal year 2006 except the prices for those programs for extraordinary relief, as defined in 808 CMR 1.06(4). Programs for which prices in fiscal year 2006 were lower than the full amount permitted by the division of purchased services shall be permitted to charge in fiscal year 2007 the full price calculated for fiscal year 2006.
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