Nursing homes face cut in funds Group fights Weld plan on Medicaid

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: November 18, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Massachusetts' nursing homes don't have to wait for the Republican Congress to cut their funding. The Weld administration may do it first.

The trade group for nursing homes yesterday filed a bill in the Legislature that would block the administration from putting a new reimbursement system into place. Under the proposed scheme, roughly half the state's 550 nursing homes would get less money next year than they get now. As a group, the nursing homes would receive $11 million less in 1996 than they got in 1995.

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