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State Board of Health pauses new additions to newborn screening for 12 months amid $5.1M shortfall
Summary
The Washington State Board of Health voted to pause policy activity to add new conditions to the newborn screening panel and to halt convening new technical advisory committees for 12 months starting 2026‑07‑01, responding to a Department of Health funding gap the agency estimated at about $5.1 million.
The Washington State Board of Health voted to pause adding any new conditions to the state’s newborn screening panel and to delay convening technical advisory committees for 12 months, starting July 1, 2026. The action followed a Department of Health briefing that the newborn screening program faces an estimated $5.1 million budget shortfall.
Anna Pickett, acting director for the newborn screening program at the Department of Health, told the board that the program is “facing a relatively large budget shortfall of about…
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