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Committee asks department to study billing options for tuberculosis services; recommends moving $320,000 out of Medicaid line
Summary
Staff told the committee about Utah's tuberculosis funding mix and recommended moving a $320,000 general-fund item out of Medicaid into public-health prevention; the committee supported staff recommendations to study billing public-health TB services to insurance and move the line item.
Legislative staff told the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee that Utah's tuberculosis (TB) case-management funding is a mix of federal, state and local dollars and recommended a pair of follow-ups: a study of whether local public-health TB services could be billed to insurance and a transfer of a $320,000 general-fund Medicaid line item to the public-health prevention and epidemiology line item.
Russell Franzen briefed the committee that, in 2024, Utah's 13 local health departments received about $280,000 to manage roughly 51…
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