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Senate Health & Welfare committee approves wide rewrite of Medicaid rules to remove duplication and clarify provider role
Summary
The Idaho Senate Health & Welfare Committee voted to adopt a broad rulemaking that streamlines the Medicaid Basic Plan rules, removes duplicative federal and state language, and updates the definition of 'provider' to align rule text with legislative scope-of-practice decisions.
The Senate Health & Welfare Committee approved a consolidated rule docket intended to simplify Idaho's Medicaid Basic Plan rules and remove duplicative federal and statutory language.
The adopted docket reduces the size of the chapter and clarifies that many requirements already found in federal regulations or state law will not be repeated in state rule, while making one substantive change to the definition of "provider" so that the department will not second-guess legislative scope-of-practice decisions. "When this committee in particular takes up scope of practice issues ... our rules were slow to follow. And we have come up with a definition of provider…
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