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Aid package offers ‘lifeline' to about 40 Mass. hospitals
['Alison Kuznitz']
Local – NBC Boston
CHIA, at the request of the State House News Service, produced a list of hospitals that meet the eligibility parameters under the spending package.
Within each category, total funding will be distributed based on hospitals' "Medicaid gross patient service revenue," according to a CHIA spokesperson.
The package also specifically carves out $16.5 million in aid to Cambridge Health Alliance.
Steve Walsh, CEO of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, said the Legislature's "investment comes at a time of extraordinary distress for our hospitals and health systems."
"It is an immediate lifeline, not just a budget line," Health Care Financing Committee Co-chair Rep. John Lawn said last week.
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