Committee hears state hospital budget updates; accreditation completed, civil-commitment costs prompt supplemental request
Analysts and the Department of Health and Welfare briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on state psychiatric hospital budgets, noting completed accreditations that enable Medicaid billing and rising civil-commitment expenditures that have prompted a $2.6 million supplemental request for FY2025.
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The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee was briefed on the Division of Psychiatric Hospitalization budget, including accreditation progress at the three state hospitals, Medicaid billing impacts and rising civil-commitment expenditures tied to statutory changes enacted in 2022.
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