An Act directing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers

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An Act directing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers

An Act directing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers By Representative Ayers of Quincy, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

• An Act directing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers By Representative Ayers of Quincy, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
• 2363) of Bruce J.
• Ayers that the Department of Public Health study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers.
• Public Health.

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Official Summary Text

An Act directing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers
By Representative Ayers of Quincy, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2363) of Bruce J. Ayers that the Department of Public Health study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers. Public Health.
Status:
Referred to Joint Committee on Health Care Financing

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.2363

SECTION 1. The department of public health shall commission a study of the admission of patients to inpatient psychiatric hospitals directly from community behavioral health centers. The study shall examine the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers.

SECTION 2. The department of public health shall file a report, including its findings on the feasibility of offering incentives to inpatient psychiatric hospitals that admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers and any recommendations on the implementation of such incentives, with the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate and the joint committee on public health no later than January 1, 2027.

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