A NEW LEGISLATIVE accord will direct $234 million to hospitals and community health centers in Massachusetts, two top Democrats announced Monday.
“We are eager to act on this funding plan in the coming days and swiftly send it to the Governor for her signature,” House and Senate Ways and Means Chairs Aaron Michlewitz and Michael Rodrigues said.
The House plans a formal session Wednesday and the Senate has scheduled a formal session for Thursday.
The joint statement from Michlewitz and Rodrigues, released just after noon Monday, said the funds will help hospitals and community health centers “as they confront rising health care costs in the face of persistent economic headwinds and an unfriendly federal government.”
The House and Senate earlier this year debated funding supplements for health care facilities and the chairs said the $234 million will be included “in a partial supplemental budget to be reported out of the House Ways and Means Committee.”
The Legislature has spent much of 2025 working on spending bills and in July dropped from their last supplemental budget $134 million for the Medical Assistance Trust Fund that both branches originally approved and $209 million for fiscally strained hospitals and community health centers that the Senate pushed.
A House Ways and Means aide declined comment on the bill but said it would be released on Tuesday morning.