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Rules Committee advances PCS addressing Medicaid rate adjustments
Summary
The committee approved a PCS for Senate Bill 405 aimed at addressing Medicaid rate issues; sponsors said the PCS removes unrelated items and adds funding intended to stabilize Medicaid rates.
The North Carolina House Rules Committee granted a favorable report to a committee substitute (PCS) for Senate Bill 4 0 5, a measure sponsors said is intended to address recent Medicaid rate changes and provide additional funding.
Representative Lambeth, the bill presenter, said lawmakers must "figure out how to fix" the Medicaid rate dilemma and that the PCS "takes out a couple items that had nothing to do with the Medicaid rates," including a provision related to a children's hospital. He said the bill "deals with the rate changes, provides additional money to be able to fund Medicaid, and just adjust out things that did not relate in their bill to solutions" the House hopes will work.
Committee members offered no extended debate in the record. Representative Kotelmoo moved for a favorable report to the PCS "unfavorable to the original bill;" members voiced approval and the chair announced the ayes carried. The transcript records the measure passing the committee by voice vote.
The presenter framed the PCS as an attempt to craft a legislative solution to funding and rate issues for Medicaid; the committee did not record additional detail about the precise funding amounts or the full list of technical changes in the PCS during the session.
