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Bill would raise pay for addiction medicine physicians, create task force to review rates
Summary
Sponsors told the committee that addiction‑medicine specialists were omitted from a 2022 behavioral‑health rate increase and that higher rates and a task force could expand access to addiction care and allow hiring of interdisciplinary teams.
Rep. Rob Noss on March 13 introduced House Bill 2270, a proposal to increase reimbursement rates for board‑certified addiction medicine physicians and to create a task force to review addiction‑medicine billing codes and recommend rate changes.
"This bill would increase the reimbursement rate by 30 percent for addiction medicine when those codes are billed by physicians who practice addiction medicine," Noss said, adding that the change would correct an omission from the 2022 behavioral‑health reimbursement legislation that did not include addiction medicine physicians.
Dr. Moxie Loeffler, an…
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