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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3468 FILED ON: 1/20/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3604
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Bruce J. Ayers
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
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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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Bruce J. Ayers1st Norfolk1/20/2023 1 of 1
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3468 FILED ON: 1/20/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3604
By Representative Ayers of Quincy, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3604) 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.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)
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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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. The department of public health shall commission a study of the admission
2of patients to inpatient psychiatric hospitals directly from community behavioral health centers.
3The study shall examine the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit
4patients directly from community behavioral health centers.
5 SECTION 2. The department of public health shall file a report, including its findings on
6the feasibility of offering incentives to inpatient psychiatric hospitals that admit patients directly
7from community behavioral health centers and any recommendations on the implementation of
8such incentives, with the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate and the joint
9committee on public health no later than January 1, 2025.