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Appropriations committee questions elder‑care and primary care requests, flags limits of transformation funds
Summary
Members pressed staff and presenters on elder‑care clinician services, VNA skilled‑nursing codes and a primary‑care inflationary adjustment, and heard that rural health transformation funds likely cannot be used to backfill existing provider payments.
The House Appropriations Committee scrutinized several health‑sector funding requests March 18, focusing on elder‑care clinician services, targeted VNA (visiting nurse association) skilled‑nursing increases, and a primary‑care inflationary adjustment listed in the materials.
A committee member explained that elder‑care clinician services had been partially funded by multiple sources and that the Department of Mental Health had reduced its share with the rationale "people can go to…
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