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Senate Medical Affairs Committee gives unanimous favorable report to Eunice Medina for Medicaid director
Summary
The Senate Medical Affairs Committee voted unanimously to report Eunice Medina favorably to the full Senate for confirmation as director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Medicaid program after hearing her remarks and staff questioning.
Eunice Medina received a unanimous favorable report from the South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee on her nomination to lead the Medicaid program at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Medina, who the committee introduced before taking the oath, told the panel she has worked in Medicaid for more than 20 years and served 3½ years as chief of staff and deputy director of programs at the department. "At its core, a Medicaid program's role is to purchase access to health care for some of the state's most vulnerable citizens," she said, adding that Medicaid covers "about 60…
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