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House Healthcare Committee forwards budget-adjustment recommendations on hospitals, provider stabilization and Medicaid items to Appropriations
Summary
The House Healthcare committee reviewed department Budget Adjustment Act (BAA) requests including a $10 million provider-stabilization request, Medicaid caseload-driven increases and funding for an Act 167 contractor, and unanimously agreed in a straw poll to send their recommendations to the Appropriations Committee.
The House Healthcare committee met to review department Budget Adjustment Act (BAA) requests and unanimously agreed in a straw poll to forward the committee’s recommendations to the Appropriations Committee for the state budget process.
Committee members spent most of the session reviewing a spreadsheet of BAA line items submitted by agencies. Key positions included support for a one-time $10,000,000 general fund provider-stabilization request (which committee members asked appropriations to ensure preserves the original $4,000,000 intended for substance use disorder organizations), an increase of $150,000 to the household insurance survey (raising that appropriation from $400,000 to…
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