House Finance Division III presses DHHS on five-point Medicaid policy package, transparency of House Bill 2 materials

House Finance Division III convened a budget work session Feb. 21 to review the Department of Health and Human Services' Medicaid budget and a five-point set of proposed policy changes that staff described as potential amendments to House Bill 2.

The session, chaired by State Representative Maureen Mooney, focused early on members' concerns about transparency after several lawmakers said they had only recently received a five-point document describing policy changes. "I am really uncomfortable that we are gonna be discussing significant policy changes that are gonna affect tens of thousands of Granite Staters and their health care coverage without official documentation on the changes that are coming," Representative Telerski said.

DHHS officials responded that the department had prepared a more detailed PowerPoint and the governor's operating budget materials and would post the…