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Health and Welfare reorganizes leadership, aligns budget to operations
Summary
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare described a reorganization that creates a fourth deputy director, moves behavioral health under Medicaid, establishes a chief financial officer and a legislative/regulatory affairs office, and requests budget alignment so the legislature’s appropriations reflect current administrative lines.
Alex Williamson, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, and Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, explained the department’s internal reorganization during the committee’s Jan. 13 budget hearing.
Williamson told the committee the department requested changes to align the budget structure with how work is currently performed. The reorganization includes renaming and refocusing divisions: Family and Community Services (FACS) will be split out; Medicaid and behavioral health divisions will be overseen by a deputy director promoted from the Medicaid administrator position; support services and licensing will be renamed the Division of Operations; public health and self-reliance will be grouped as Health and Human Services; and a new internal division…
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