Joint Budget Committee
In a late-night, upon-adjournment markup, the Joint Budget Committee cleared a string of long-bill companion measures and locked in a 2% across-the-board Medicaid provider cut cushioned by carve-outs for NICU, maternal and pediatric-behavioral codes. But the sharpest exchanges came over a bill to let the state's Medicaid agency use extrapolation in provider audits — sent back for a rewrite after Sen. Kirkmeyer's pointed objections — and a higher-education tuition cap that died on a 3-3 tie.
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“So we do expect that this bill will impact families in ways that will be painful. But this program has increased by over 100% in the last couple of fiscal years.”
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Sign in to subscribeOrder. We have potential legislation packet number 17 with four bills to take a look at. We're starting with Ms. Pope. Tell us about LLS 0855. Thank you, madam Chair. EMILY Pope, JVC STAFF this is the bill to implement some cost controls on the adoption and relative guardianship assistance programs. The bill caps monthly subsidy payments for adoption and guardianship at different percentages of the foster care rate, depending on youth age, and removes services from the entitlement. It's estimated that this will save you $8 million in total funds, including 4.7 million general fund. That's compared to a $14.6 million general fund increase for this program. That's included in the long bill and and is why we were motivated to implement some cost controls for this program. When you improved the concept of the draft, Rep. Brown asked for more information about the number of families that will be impacted. So there is some information in a memo in your packet on page one. Originally, the department was estimating that not many families would be impacted by this change. When they provided me with data, they are showing that 24% of adoption families and 40% of guardianship families…
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