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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Commerce and Small Business Committee Mar 6th, 2025

Commerce and Small Business

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB382 is a bill that changes some Alabama real estate licensing laws. Um, be very...
  • Alabama real estate licensing law. Um, be very brief. It does a few things.
Bills: HB95, HB382
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 18th, 2026

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Doctors want to be in network.
  • Out of the network, right? Has nothing to do with the doctor.
  • How many network providers did we have drop out of network?
  • in the network.
  • We have network leakage. It's very potential.
KY
Summary: The Medicaid Oversight Board meeting opened with quorum, approval of the March 9 and March 16, 2026 minutes, and a welcome to new member Representative Willner. The board then heard a presentation from the Department of Medicaid Services on several statutory reports: the quarterly budget analysis (LRC) report, the quarterly MCO report, the provider tax and assessment report, the enrollee demographic report, the annual behavioral health/substance use disorder utilization report, and the Medicaid pharmaceutical rebate fund. Commissioner Lisa Lee and CFO Steve Bechal explained the reports and answered questions. On spending, DMS said the quarterly budget analysis report should be read using the summary tabs because the first tab reflects only traditional Medicaid and does not include all populations. Lee said the first three quarters of fiscal year 2026 showed about $191 million more in waiver spending than the same period last year, about $250 million more in other categories such as nursing facilities, CCBHCs, and FQHCs, and roughly $450 million more in total fee-for-service spending. She also noted that Medicare Part D premiums are 100% state funds and estimated the state-fund increase at about $140 million. For managed care, DMS said pharmacy, inpatient hospital, and outpatient hospital spending made up about 66% of MCO payments so far this fiscal year. Members asked about administrative costs, provider tax impacts, citizenship-status categories, medical loss ratio, and whether the reports could be expanded to show recoupments and citizenship-based spending. DMS clarified that the spending figures discussed were benefit costs only, not administrative costs, and said administrative match rates vary. On the provider tax and directed payments report, Lee said the new CMS proposed rule would allow separate payment terms to continue through the grandfathering period, but that the impact would be substantial for providers even if the administrative effect was minimal. She also said DMS was still reviewing unusual citizenship categories such as “other” and “unspecified,” and would provide more information on medical loss ratio and recoupments if available. Auditor Ball raised concerns about alleged waste, duplicate Social Security numbers, ineligible enrollees, and high error rates in other programs. Lee responded that Medicaid focuses on fraud, waste, and abuse, but said the cited $800 million figure was not factual because it did not account for people enrolled in more than one Medicaid program at the same time. She said DMS is reviewing eligibility systems, including changes tied to community engagement requirements, and is working with the cabinet’s eligibility staff and ombudsman division on error rates. No additional votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um thermal energy networks are builds.
  • Thermal energy networks are an innovative technology that Minnesota should continue to advance.
  • <00:54:48.880> What's energy networks or TENS. What's energy networks or TENS.
  • Thermal energy networks are an innovative technology that Minnesota should continue to advance.
  • Thermal energy networks are an innovative technology that Minnesota should continue to advance.
Bills: HF4236, HF4122, HF4377
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services Apr 30th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • provider groups... ...and accountability in out-of-network claims.
  • claims... ...and accountability in out-of-network claims.
  • for out-of-network payments.
  • The ability to get a reasonable in-network contracted rate.
  • Many do have support networks, but those are in more dire circumstances.
Summary: The committee met with a quorum and announced it would vote on pending bills at 10:30, with public testimony limited to two minutes. It first took up Senate Bill 905, a TDLR cleanup bill on licensing regulation of speech-language pathologists and audiologists. Senator Zafferini said the committee substitute would streamline advisory board consultation, remove obsolete provisional licenses, and allow any licensed physician to authorize hearing instruments for minors; the substitute was adopted and the bill left pending. The committee then heard House Bill 451, which would require universal screening for commercial sexual exploitation risk for children in DFPS conservatorship and youth under TJJD jurisdiction. The author and witnesses from Children at Risk, the Fort Bend Anti-Trafficking Collective, and Texas CASA supported the bill as a prevention tool with existing infrastructure and training; the committee adopted the substitute and left the bill pending. The committee next considered Senate Bill 466, which would clarify that families may request a fetal death certificate at any gestational age, while keeping existing filing requirements for physicians. A constituent father testified about losing his 11-week-old daughter and being told he could not obtain a certificate, which he said prevented funeral arrangements; the substitute was adopted and the bill left pending. Senate Bill 2311 followed, requiring residential treatment centers to have a written agreement with the school that will educate resident children before becoming operational. The author cited a local dispute where an RTC and school district lacked communication, and witnesses from Texas CASA and Disability Rights Texas supported clearer educational planning while suggesting the Education Code may need conforming changes; the bill was left pending. The committee then heard Senate Bill 2826, known as Alyssa’s Law, which would create a statewide education program on medical child abuse for medical students, health care professionals, and CPS caseworkers. The author and Sheriff Bill Weyburn described Alyssa’s case as involving repeated unnecessary surgeries and argued the bill would improve awareness and early identification, while several witnesses and members raised concerns about false accusations, impacts on medically fragile children, and the need for scientific, peer-reviewed training and safeguards. After extensive discussion, the chair left the bill pending. The committee also heard House Bill 136, which would add certified lactation consultants as Medicaid providers to expand breastfeeding support; witnesses from lactation and nutrition fields said the bill would improve access, maternal and infant health, and long-term savings, and the bill was left pending. Finally, the committee took up Senate Bill 2805, a surprise-billing/arbitration measure that would clarify provider identifiers and shift arbitration costs to the losing party. The author said the substitute was a legislative counsel draft with no substantive difference, and witnesses from the Texas Medical Association, Texas Society of Anesthesiologists, and U.S. Anesthesia Partners supported the bill as a modest improvement that would reduce administrative confusion and make arbitration fairer without weakening patient protections. Members discussed how arbitration costs affect settlement behavior and how to define the “winner” in close cases. The bill was heard but not voted out during this segment.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is my privilege and my pleasure to be here with you this afternoon to discuss HB89, the Alabama Maternal
  • But HB89, the Alabama...
  • But HB89, the Alabama Maternal Health Care Act, would provide presumptive eligibility to pregnant women
  • do that pregnancy test in that... ...going to do that pregnancy test in that first visit. 11% of Alabama
Bills: HB30, HB35, HB72, HB89, HB30, HB35
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Fiscal Responsibility Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Fiscal Responsibility

Transcript Highlights:
  • They give Alabama new authority and opportunity. They begin in the tax year 2027.
  • Every Alabama can receive every... 2027.
  • <00:04:17.040> We the Alabama Department of Revenue.
  • We the Alabama Department of Revenue.
  • They have to be in Alabama, a 501(c)(3).
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • He also asked the student pages in the room to stand and be welcomed to the Alabama Veterans Military
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  • <00:12:50.399> and veterans in the state of Alabama. and veterans in the state of Alabama.
  • up and let us welcome you to the Alabama up and let us welcome you to the Alabama Veterans<00:13
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Furthermore, the definition of "out-of-network provider" lacks sufficient clarity regarding how it is
  • We strive to be in network with all major carriers, but sometimes that's not always possible.
  • settlements for out-of-network payments to be done through arbitration.
  • So I just... you know, your in-network rates come down. Fair statement. Fair statement.
  • Many do have a support network. But those are in more dire circumstances.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 30th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Since I sit in a hospital and integrated delivery networks, I'm in a largely integrated delivery network
  • I mean, just speaking in general, some of these are tools to kind of enforce what we call narrow networks
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 30th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • payment from the provider and/or their practice to cover the difference from the payments for in-network
  • . ...and out-of-network benefits if the provider is ultimately denied.
  • Even if joining a practice that's already in network, this process can take many months.
  • during the credentialing process, so that the patients can receive in-network treatment.
  • and out-of-network rates.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Health Committee Jan 28th, 2026

Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now, Alabama, it's not new. Standing orders are not new to Alabama.
  • <00:18:31.600> Standing Now, Alabama, it's not new. Standing Now, Alabama, it's not new.
  • Just a orders are not new to Alabama.
  • in Alabama, you couldn't dispense it. in Alabama, you couldn't dispense it.
  • And it death certificate in Alabama.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Mar 4th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chartered by the state of Alabama or a member bank of the Federal Reserve System and approved by the
  • present us with uh basically the tell me if this is the wrong words but where are we uh in the state of Alabama
  • <00:19:25.360> the<00:19:25.440> state<00:19:25.600> of<00:19:25.679> Alabama
  • where are we uh in the state of Alabama where are we uh in the state of Alabama insurance<00:19:
Bills: HB415, HB419, SB219, SB170