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House Division 3 trims DHHS spending, including a 3% Medicaid rate cut and elimination of family‑planning line; developmental services and veterans home get saf
Summary
Division 3’s House package reduces general funds to the Department of Health and Human Services, directs a 3% overall Medicaid rate cut, removes a family‑planning appropriation for four clinics, defunds the Prescription Drug Affordability Board and retools funding for developmental disabilities with a safety‑net provision.
Representative Edwards, leading the Division 3 presentation, framed the package around priorities for direct patient care and an effort to protect critical institutional census levels while closing a substantial funding gap.
Medicaid and provider reimbursement The committee included a 3% Medicaid rate reduction across providers in the House position to balance the budget. Committee leaders described this as an unwanted but necessary measure to produce savings; members and outside advocates characterized the reduction as the single most significant and controversial fiscal move in Division 3 and urged the Senate to reconsider it. The committee also approved investments in Medicaid recoveries and administrative enforcement intended to improve collection of estate recoveries and other third‑party reimbursements.
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