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House debates health-care package that would expand Medicaid and limit insurer disclosure
Summary
Lawmakers took up Senate Bill 158, a package that would expand Medicaid coverage (sponsor estimated adding about 30,000 previously uninsured people) and impose insurance-market rules including portability and renewability protections; floor amendments narrowed a broad insurer-disclosure requirement to focus on formularies, coverage prerequisites and prescription limits.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House on March 1 took up Senate Bill 158, a multi-part health-care package designed to expand Medicaid coverage for children and impose a set of insurance-market reforms meant to curb abrupt premium increases and improve consumer notice.
Representative Brown, the bill sponsor who summarized the measure on the floor, said the bill “adds somewhere around 30,000 new people who are presently uninsured to the roles of the insured through the Medicaid program.” Proponents described that expansion as being funded by savings from changes to Medicaid’s structure and by encouraging participation in capitated (HMO-like) arrangements.
The package also includes consumer-facing insurance reforms. Floor…
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