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House budget cuts Medicaid rates, pauses family‑planning funding and prioritizes direct care at DHHS
Summary
Division 3 reductions include a 3% Medicaid rate cut, the removal of family‑planning appropriations that had supported four federally qualified clinics, targeted increases for Glencliff and certain developmental services, asset sales and a plan to seek recoveries and fee changes to improve Medicaid receipts.
House Finance’s Division 3 presentation focused on the Department of Health and Human Services and described substantial general‑fund reductions—roughly 10% in the first-year allocation for the division—and a mix of program protections and cuts designed to preserve direct patient care.
Division 3 leaders said the committee prioritized direct-service obligations—state-run hospitals, the Veterans Home, the Glencliff residential facility and the youth development center—and that the budget therefore preserved core staffing for corrections officers and other front-line positions while reducing administrative and nonessential lines. To close the revenue gap, the committee included several…
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