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Lawmakers press DHS to un-redact Optum report on Medicaid prepayment review; committee advances bill with data safeguards
Summary
Members of the House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee criticized heavy redactions in a Department of Human Services Optum prepayment-review report, adopted amendments limiting public dissemination of sensitive material and barring Optum from selling private data, and passed the amended bill (House File 3378) to the general register.
The committee on Tuesday moved a bill to make more of a Department of Human Services (DHS) Optum prepayment-review report available to legislators after members criticized extensive redactions that hide alleged vulnerabilities and policy recommendations.
Representative Schumacher, sponsor of House File 3378, said a redacted DHS report hampers the Legislature’s ability to draft policy this session. Matt Ealing of Minnesotans for Open Government argued many of the redactions rely too broadly on Minn. Stat. § 13.37…
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