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Human services line items drive biggest demand in budget adjustment; Medicaid and nursing homes cited
Summary
Administration officials told appropriators the largest spending needs in the proposed budget adjustment come from human services — primarily Medicaid (Global Commitment) utilization and emergency payments and higher operating costs for some nursing homes and residential providers.
Administration officials told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the human services cluster accounts for the largest share of new spending in the governor’s budget adjustment.
Arnie Merrill, deputy commissioner of finance and management, summarized the human services adjustments and said the category’s total net change is “about $125 million,” with approximately $36 million of that additional need shown as general fund. He described the Medicaid budget entries as the primary driver behind the request.
Merrill pointed committee members to two large Global Commitment lines in the worksheet: one showing about $55.8 million and another showing about $69.4 million in…
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