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Committee advances community health worker bill but members seek clearer scope limits
Summary
Senate Bill 2749 to license community health workers and direct Medicaid to seek a waiver to reimburse certain services passed committee after debate over how broadly the Department of Health may set scope of practice and removal of a preamble.
The Public Health and Welfare Committee advanced Senate Bill 2749, a measure to establish licensure and a Medicaid reimbursement pathway for community health workers, after members debated the bill's scope-of-practice language and approved a technical amendment deleting a preamble.
Sponsor Senator Boyd told the committee the bill would allow the Division of Medicaid to seek a waiver for reimbursement of community health worker services…
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