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Senate committee approves streamlined Medicaid Basic Plan rules; department says only limited policy change
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The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to approve a large rewrite of Medicaid Basic Plan rules, trimming duplicative federal and statutory text and changing the "provider" definition to follow legislative scope-of-practice decisions, department officials said.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved a major rewrite of the Medicaid Basic Plan chapter on Thursday that the Department of Health and Welfare described as a cleanup to remove duplicative federal and state requirements and to make policy levers clearer for legislators.
Jared Larson told the committee the rulemaking reduced the chapter from about 150 pages to roughly 80 pages by removing material already required by federal law or Idaho statute and by streamlining language. He said the intent is to leave policy-level items under the committee's oversight while eliminating text that simply repeats federal code.
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