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House Healthcare committee rejects amendment to remove 'behavioral health' from S27 definition
Summary
A House Healthcare committee voted 6–5 to reject Representative Anne Donohue’s amendment to strike the term “behavioral health” from the definition in bill S27, after members debated whether the term is vague, stigmatizing or necessary to prevent coverage gaps in a medical-debt bill.
Representative Anne Donohue offered an amendment to S27 on April 15 to remove the phrase “behavioral health” from the bill’s definition, arguing the term is vague and stigmatizing and not needed for the statute’s protections.
Donohue said the amendment would “strike the term behavioral health from the definition,” and told the committee she had reviewed federal and clinical sources including the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and found no gap that would require the umbrella term. “All of the evidence is there is nothing under the sun that is not captured by one of…
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