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State rep proposes Medicaid oversight board to mirror pension panel
Summary
A bill to create a bipartisan oversight board for Kentucky Medicaid cleared the House State Government Committee unanimously, its sponsor saying the board would bring executive, legislative and stakeholder voices together to better manage the program that covers about 1.4 million Kentuckians.
Representative Adam Bowling introduced House Bill 9 to the Committee on State Government, saying the bill would create an oversight board to provide structured, bipartisan review of Medicaid policy and spending.
Bowling said Kentucky has about 1,400,000 members on Medicaid and K-CHIP and that Medicaid is the state’s second-largest budget item. "We modeled this piece of legislation out after the public pension oversight board," he told the committee, adding the panel would let the executive branch, the legislature and stakeholders "sit at the same table"…
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