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Sponsor withdraws amendment to lower patient financial-assistance threshold from 400% to 300%
Summary
Lawmakers discussed an amendment to reduce income eligibility for patient financial assistance and medical-debt repayment from 400% to 300% of the federal poverty level. After questions and objections about impacts and prior statute changes, the sponsor said they would withdraw the amendment.
Lawmakers discussed — then the sponsor agreed to withdraw — an amendment that would have reduced the income threshold for patient financial assistance and eligibility for medical-debt repayment from 400% to 300% of the federal poverty level.
The amendment, explained during the meeting, would have amended "patient financial assistance policy language in Title 18" and aligned eligibility for a proposed medical-debt repayment program under S27 to a 300% federal poverty level standard. "Taken together the, the amendments, as far as the financial eligibility piece would have eligibility for the debt repayment under medical debt repayment under S27 go up to 300% of the federal poverty," the presenter said during discussion.
The proposal…
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