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Senate committee approves broad health care payment and delivery reform bill, sends committee bill to full Senate
Summary
The Senate Health & Welfare committee approved a committee bill that would enact multiple health care payment and delivery reforms, add staff positions, and appropriate $1.55 million to the Agency of Human Services for FY2026, and requested further reporting and implementation work.
The Senate Health & Welfare committee voted to approve its committee bill (draft 3.2) proposing a package of health care payment and delivery system reforms and to send the measure to the full Senate.
Jen Harvey of the Office of Legislative Council described the draft and said, in laying out the bill's purpose, "it proposes to enact certain health care payment and delivery system reforms." The committee bill edits include expanded reporting requirements, direction to coordinate hospital transformation activities under Act 167, and a relative emphasis on data integration and…
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