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Committee on Health advances FY26 budget, restoring key benefits and program funding
Summary
The Committee on Health moved its FY26 budget report unanimously, restoring funding for Medicaid-covered benefits (including durable medical equipment and dental), boosting HIV prevention, food-access programs and provider reimbursements while urging executive action on remaining gaps.
Chair Christina Henderson opened the Committee on Health meeting Monday and summarized the panel’s FY26 report, saying the committee balanced a tight fiscal plan while protecting core coverage and public-health services.
Henderson told colleagues the mayor’s proposal would shift roughly 25,500 adults from D.C. Medicaid into a Basic Health Program administered by the Health Benefit Exchange, and she warned the BHP would likely omit benefits currently covered by D.C. Medicaid such as dental, vision and some substance-use disorder treatments. Henderson said the committee ‘‘urges the Committee of the Whole to identify this funding, particularly the $5,200,000 needed for dental coverage.’’
The report restores several specific line items Henderson…
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