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Committee flags family-planning implementation problems; state covering Planned Parenthood Medicaid gap
Summary
Committee members said a proposed family-planning rate is not implementable and urged the administration to propose solutions; members also heard that Planned Parenthood lost Medicaid payments under HR 1 and the state has used general funds to cover services.
Committee members raised concerns that a family-planning reimbursement rate included in the budget is “not implementable,” and they asked the administration for concrete proposals to operationalize the policy.
Speaker 1 said the family-planning rate was not implementable and asked the administration to “come forward and provide us with suggestions on how they could actually implement this,” noting family planning has been a legislative priority for years but that the state has not been drawing down available federal dollars because implementation has stalled.
Separately, Speaker 1 reported that Planned Parenthood “lost a year of funding under HR 1 and has not been able to be paid for any services they provide whatsoever under Medicaid,” and that the state has stepped in with general fund dollars to cover those services. Speaker 3 acknowledged the point but urged restraint in repetitively pressing it during the meeting; no formal remedy or dollar total was decided during the session.
Committee members asked staff to include these concerns in the draft letter to Appropriations and to press the administration for implementation suggestions and financial detail before Appropriations acts. The committee scheduled further discussion when the letter is reviewed and straw-polled tomorrow.
