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Joint Budget Committee weighs community provider rate common policy, accepts governor's no-request stance
Summary
JBC staff presented the community provider rate common policy landscape, showing that a 1% increase would cost roughly $40 million general fund (driven largely by Health Care Policy and Financing). The committee accepted the governor’s lack of a request for a common policy increase but left open revisiting the policy later.
Joint Budget Committee staff told lawmakers a 1% increase in the community provider rate common policy would cost roughly $40,000,000 general fund; a 1% decrease would lower state costs by roughly $33,500,000, with differences tied to items excluded from the rate base.
Justin Braque, JBC staff, explained the difference between the increase and decrease estimates: the inclusion or exclusion of a large Community First Choice base (about $650 million) and other HCBS/HCPF- specific exclusions. Braque said the health…
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