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Committee adopts a slate of interim study proposals covering telemedicine, emergency authority and health-care audits

PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE · July 7, 2020
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Summary

Lawmakers adopted multiple interim study proposals (ISPs) related to the state role in emergency declarations, telemedicine, Medicaid inspector-general recovery, insurance grace periods, provider audits and scope-of-practice review; several motions passed by voice vote.

The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee voted to adopt multiple interim study proposals (ISPs) aimed at pandemic-era and longer-term policy questions.

Senator Hammer introduced an ISP seeking to involve the legislature in the state-of-emergency declaration process and to study statutory changes; the committee adopted the ISP after a motion. Representative Aaron Pilkington’s telemedicine ISP, which would examine…

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