Notice of Agency Action 

SUBJECT:	MassHealth: Payment for Acute Hospital Services Effective October 1, 
2012

AGENCY:	Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), 
Office of Medicaid

The Rate Year 2012 MassHealth acute hospital fee-for-service inpatient and 
outpatient payment methods and rates described in the MassHealth Notice of Final 
Agency Action effective October 1, 2011, will remain in effect until further 
notice.  In addition, EOHHS makes supplemental payments to certain hospitals 
that qualify as Public Service Hospitals, Essential MassHealth Hospitals, Acute 
Hospitals with High Medicaid Discharges, and Freestanding Pediatric Specialty 
Hospitals.  Supplemental payments for the annual period beginning October 1, 
2012, are calculated using methods substantially similar to RY12 supplemental 
payment methods.  
EOHHS projects that this extension will not result in a change in estimated 
annual aggregate expenditures. A complete description of MassHealth acute 
hospital RY12 payment methods and rates are available at www.mass.gov/masshealth 
(click on the link to “MassHealth Regulations and Other Publications” and the 
link to “Special Notices for Hospitals”; refer to Acute Hospital Rate Year 2012 
Notices.)  For further information regarding MassHealth acute hospital payment 
methods and rates, you may contact Kiki Feldmar at the Executive Office of 
Health and Human Services, MassHealth Office of Providers and Plans, 100 Hancock 
Street, 6th Floor, Quincy, MA 02171, or by e-mail at kiki.feldmar@state.ma.us.

Statutory Authority:  M.G.L. ch.118G; M.G.L. ch.118E; St. 2011, c. 68; St. 2012 
c. 139; 42 USC 1396a; 42 USC 1396b; 42 USC 1315.

Related Regulations:  130 CMR 410, 415, 450; 42 CFR Part 447