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Senate panel advances bill to cap Medicaid managed-care organizations at three
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Sen. Steve Meredith, sponsor of Senate Bill 13 and senator for the Fifth District, told the Senate Standing Committee on Health Services that the bill would limit Kentucky’s Medicaid managed-care organizations to three and advance the measure to the full Senate.
Sen. Steve Meredith, sponsor of Senate Bill 13 and senator for the Fifth District, told the Senate Standing Committee on Health Services that the bill would limit Kentucky’s Medicaid managed-care organizations to three and advance the measure to the full Senate. The committee voted to advance the bill favorably by voice vote; the clerk recorded the tally as 10 yes, 0 no.
Meredith said the measure aims to reduce what he described as heavy administrative overhead in U.S. health care and within Kentucky’s Medicaid program. “We’re spending 18% of our gross national product on health care,” Meredith said, and added that administrative costs are “about 30¢ of every dollar just on administration of health care.” He argued fewer…
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