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Committee advances bill to expand Medicaid coverage of tobacco‑cessation products
Summary
The committee unanimously advanced House Bill 506, which would expand Medicaid coverage of tobacco‑cessation products and remove certain prior‑authorization limits; health‑department officials described the expected fiscal impact as minimal.
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted unanimously to advance House Bill 506, which would expand Medicaid coverage of tobacco‑cessation therapies, including nicotine replacement and counseling, and remove prior‑authorization restrictions that limited some treatments.
Representative Scott Hilton, the bill sponsor, said Medicaid recipients smoke at roughly twice the rate of privately insured residents and that smoking‑related illnesses…
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