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DVHA asks committee to exclude Medicaid from H.611 HIV medication cost-sharing amendment, warns of fiscal and program risks
Summary
Alex McCracken of DVHA told the Senate Health & Welfare Committee that Vermont Medicaid already covers PrEP/PEP and many HIV treatments without prior authorization or copays and asked that the H.611 amendment requiring no cost-sharing exclude Medicaid because of significant fiscal impact and federal program requirements.
Alex McCracken, director of communications and legislative affairs for the Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA), testified on April 17 that the department requests Medicaid be excluded from a proposed amendment to H.611 that would require insurers to provide HIV prevention and treatment medications with no cost sharing.
"This language would require insurers, including Medicaid, to provide additional coverage for HIV prevention and treatment medication with no cost…
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