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Public commenter urges committee to reimburse travel costs after Medicaid denial for cancer treatment
Summary
A public speaker asked the conference committee to help reimburse airfare and hotel costs tied to a cancer patient’s treatment in Hawaii, saying the patient has active Medicaid but received a denial and still faces bills; no agency response or committee decision was recorded.
During the conference committee’s public-comment period, Antellanoff Schneider, who identified herself as an earned income specialist with Conference Community Trust, asked conferees to consider reimbursing travel and lodging costs for a patient named Richard whose cancer treatment in Hawaii, she said, was billed and partly denied despite active Medicaid coverage.
Schneider told the…
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