A Massachusetts bill on Medicaid coverage, introduced and still moving. Last moved July 20, 2026.
Official title Increasing the personal needs allowance for long term care residents
For legislation to increase the personal needs allowance for certain elderly and disabled residents residing in licensed medical facilities. Health Care Financing.
What this affects
- Who pays, or is paid
- Medicaid pays for more, or fewer, residents. The payer mix moves for every building in Massachusetts.
- Which buildings
- 341 facilities holding 40,961 licensed beds in Massachusetts.
- The dollars, or the rule
- Applies to Medicaid-eligible elderly and disabled residents in licensed nursing facilities, chronic hospitals, rest homes, and similar institutions in Massachusetts. The monthly personal needs allowance is increased from $72.80 to $113.42, with the state making up any shortfall if a resident's income is below that…
- Effective
- We cannot tell yet from the text. No effective date is stated yet.
- Status
- Introduced, as of July 20, 2026.
Coverage changes move the payer mix, and payer mix drives the revenue per occupied bed a buyer will underwrite.
Latest action, July 20, 2026: Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
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Bill text and status: malegislature.gov · retrieved August 3, 2026