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Committee adopts substitute to align correctional health rates with Medicare to aid forecasting

Utah House Health and Human Services Standing Committee · February 17, 2026

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Summary

The House Health and Human Services Committee voted unanimously to adopt and favorably recommend a substitute to HB321 that changes the corrections medical reimbursement base to Medicare rates, a move sponsors and stakeholders said will improve transparency and budgeting for correctional health services.

Representative Fia Fia presented House Bill 3 21, saying stakeholders including the University of Utah, the Department of Corrections and PEHP reached agreement on a second substitute that aligns corrections’ unsupplemented Medicaid base rate to Medicare rates to help the Department of Corrections better…

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