Supporters celebrated the bill’s effort at compromise. But opponents worried the new proposal would add red tape — and cost.
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press. The Idaho Senate at around 6 p.m. Tuesday suspended its own rules to be ...
(Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun) For years since voter-approved Idaho Medicaid expansion took effect in 2020, ...
The bill also allows people who qualify for Medicaid to instead use tax credits to purchase a health plan through the Idaho Health Insurance Exchange.
A bill that would make 11 changes to the program, including a lifetime cap on benefits and work requirements, made it through ...
A sweeping Medicaid reform bill — introduced just over a week ago on Feb. 28 — advanced to the Senate floor Monday, amid an ...
That led Idaho residents to bring forth a successful ballot measure in 2018, and Medicaid expansion has been in place in Idaho since then, the Statesman previously reported. But the cost of the ...
HB 328 would make a number of changes to Idaho’s entire Medicaid program, including moving to a third-party MCO that would ...
The Idaho Legislature widely — in less than two weeks — passed a bill that proposes sweeping policy changes to control ...
The latest bill to add work requirements to Idaho’s Medicaid expansion program is heading to the Senate. House Bill 345 ...
Idaho senators on Tuesday evening passed a bill to curtail the state’s spending on its Medicaid expansion program, sending the bill on to Gov. Brad Little’s desk to be signed into law.
(Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun) For years since voter-approved Idaho Medicaid expansion took effect in 2020, Republican state lawmakers have pointed to the program’s rising costs as a ...