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Montana bill would restore 12-month Medicaid eligibility and expand access help desks to prevent coverage gaps
Summary
Representative Mary Cafaro's HB230 would lift the Medicaid expansion sunset and add administrative reforms: 12-month continuous eligibility, improved DPHHS communications and hotline, reopening Offices of Public Assistance (OPA), and a client advisory board. Providers and advocates told the committee redetermination left people uninsured and delayed care.
Representative Mary Cafaro opened the committee hearing on House Bill 230 by describing the bill's twin goals: make the state's Medicaid expansion permanent and address operational failures that produced coverage gaps during the post-pandemic redetermination process.
"House Bill 2 30 continues Montana's successful Medicaid program by lifting the sunset because it's time to stop reevaluating this program," Cafaro said, describing provisions to reinstate 12-month continuous eligibility, reopen Offices of Public Assistance…
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