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Senate committee amends Medicaid bill to restate work requirement, pauses final vote for lack of members
Summary
The Arkansas Senate Insurance & Commerce Committee adopted an amendment to a bill revising Medicaid-related language — including restating a work requirement and allowing recovery of pharmacy rebates — but delayed a final passage vote because not enough members were present.
Senator Johnson presented a bill to the Insurance & Commerce Committee that reasserts a Medicaid work requirement and makes several related changes, and the committee adopted an amendment before postponing a final passage vote because too few members were present.
The bill, as described by Senator Johnson, "adds the work requirement language that the waiver has already been submitted to CMS." It also would allow the state to recover pharmacy rebates, define "medical loss ratio" and "pharmacy rebate" consistent with the state's pharmacy benefit manager licensing act, move certain dates in the statute, direct the Department of Human Services to apply for a Section 1115 waiver to continue the Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me program, and allow non–hospital-based…
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