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Health Care Advocate warns against Medicaid copay hike, flags family-planning coding loss and highlights MSP expansion
Summary
The Health Care Advocate told the committee that raising Medicaid pharmacy copays would shift costs to low-income Vermonters and forego federal match; the HCA also highlighted a coding problem that prevents drawing a 90/10 family-planning match and described the newly expanded Medicare Savings Program that will make roughly 14,000 people newly eligible.
Mike Fisher and other Health Care Advocate (HCA) staff briefed the committee on several areas of concern in the administration's budget recommendations, including DIVA staffing needs, a proposed increase in Medicaid prescription copays, a family-planning coding problem that prevents a 90/10 federal match, and the rollout of the expanded Medicare Savings Program (MSP).
The HCA supported DIVA's request for 12 additional positions to handle administrative changes and…
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