Submitted by Laura Ness, Director, Government Affairs (GAO)

This week, the Government Affairs Office (GAO) traveled to Massachusetts to advocate for amendment 513. The amendment requires the state to collect and make publicly available data on the hospitalization costs of the continuous skilled nursing population. This was accepted in the Senate budget and now needs to be approved by the conference committee. Our request is that the legislature approves the amendment but requires the data to be available by December 31.