Video & Transcript Research : 'vendor rate'
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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Health Mar 23rd, 2026
Joint Committee on Public Health
Transcript Highlights:
- It's growing at an annual rate of 15% or so.
- It affects some of the highest rates of cities in the world are in North Africa and Northern India, of
Keywords:
celiac disease, gluten intolerance, autoimmune disorder, pediatric screening, child health, public health, screening pilot, early detection, 12-year-olds, cholesterol screening, lipid screening, health care providers, Department of Public Health, patient advocacy, family support, Massachusetts, preventive care, diagnostic screening, nutrition, gastroenterology
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/6/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Once your project is complete, your rates get increased to cover the cost of those projects.
- </c> once your project is complete your rates once your project is complete your rates um<00:02:20.879
- Thank you, Representative Noor. question on the rates uh there's a grant question on the rates uh there's
- rather than moving to a their old rate rather than moving to a updated updated updated rate<00:05:20.199
- </c><00:09:14.800><c> that</c> sustainable reimbursement rates that sustainable reimbursement rates that
Keywords:
mental health, behavioral health, psychiatric care, collaborative care model, healthcare funding, service dog, service animal, service dog in training, assistance dog, guide dog, disability rights, housing accommodations, fair housing, landlord, rental housing, homeowners association, HOA, Minnesota human services, accessible housing, reasonable accommodation
TX
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- In 2020, the rate was 20.5%, and since then, we've fallen all the way to 14.7% in 2023.
- schoolyard hypotheticals, despite consistent evidence showing that false rape accusations occur at rates
- The national reporting rate for rape has plummeted from 40% to just 25% in the last few years, with survivors
Bills:
HB47
Keywords:
HB 47, Texas Tax Code, ad valorem taxes, property tax, voter-approval tax rate, tax rate election, taxing unit, injunction, taxpayer rights, property owner, local government finance, tax refund, attorney's fees, court costs, voter-approved tax increase, tax reform, municipal taxes, county taxes, school district taxes, bond election
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- regulate insurance rates?
- to lower rates.
- rate that's being filed, it has no impact on that rate that's being filed.”
- Or review rates that have been filed to be changed? What do you mean by reviewing rates?
- same rates applied.
Keywords:
insurance, nonadmitted insurers, surplus lines, insurance regulation, Oklahoma, health insurance, contracting entities, medical providers, enrollment, beneficiary rights, property and casualty, rates, filing, Insurance Commissioner, regulation, property, regulations, actuary, rate filing, independent review
Summary:
The committee heard a series of insurance-related bills, with much of the discussion focused on homeowners insurance rates, transparency, and regulatory oversight. House Bill 3696, a proposed rate-approval style measure for homeowners insurance, drew extensive questioning about whether it would actually lower premiums, its comparison to Texas, the role of the Insurance Department and Attorney General, and possible effects on carriers and agents. The author said the bill was intended to increase transparency and consumer protections, acknowledged it was a work in progress, and agreed to strike the title and keep working with the committee. The bill ultimately passed the committee on a recorded vote.
The committee also advanced House Bill 3259, which would prohibit certain health care contract clauses such as all-or-nothing, anti-steering, gag, and most-favored-nation provisions; House Bill 4294, a follow-up to Dylan’s Law dealing with epilepsy-related insurance coverage and neurostimulator devices; and House Bill 4488, which would let the Insurance Commissioner appoint an impartial umpire when a body shop and insurer cannot agree on a loss value. House Bill 3646, a broad and still-developing insurance bill involving rate review, litigation, venue, AI use, and Attorney General involvement, generated substantial concern from members about workability, litigation, and agent exposure. Its author said it was not final, but the committee voted it down.
Later, the committee passed House Bill 3048, a cleanup measure for surplus lines licensing laws; House Bill 3780, requiring an independent actuary review as a transparency measure; House Bill 3781, changing the timing from use-and-file to file-and-use with a 60-day review period while the author said he did not want rate approval; House Bill 3802, delaying rate adjustments after a spouse’s death until renewal; House Bill 3818, creating a home and auto savings account framework intended to help policyholders raise deductibles and lower premiums; and House Bill 2929, which limits how far back insurers may look at homeowners and auto claims for underwriting purposes. Most of these bills passed with little or no opposition after brief questioning.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We appreciate and recognize the rate compression policies in place today and lowering the rate for all
- Sure, so we have the voter approved rate, which is the highest rate that you could approve without a,
- We have typically adopted a rate lower than the voter approved rate in the last several years in order
- to keep our property tax rate low.
- But what you're saying is right, that yes, tax rates go up and then that tax rate is paid by everyone
Keywords:
HB 8, Texas public school accountability, school accountability, public school transparency, STAAR, state assessments, instructionally supportive assessment program, Student Success Tool, Texas Education Agency, TEA, accountability ratings, A-F ratings, through-year assessment, benchmark testing, norm-referenced assessment, college career military readiness, CCMR, local accountability plan, school district performance, campus turnaround
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
HF702 heard in House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/6/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Once your project is complete, your rates get increased to cover the cost of those projects.
- Once your project is complete, your rates get increased to cover the cost of those projects.
- </c> once your project is complete your rates once your project is complete your rates um<00:01:54.840
- rather than moving to a their old rate rather than moving to a updated updated updated rate<00:04:54.160
- </c> extent for some of the property uh rate extent for some of the property uh rate moratorium<00:05
Keywords:
mental health, behavioral health, psychiatric care, collaborative care model, healthcare funding, service dog, service animal, service dog in training, assistance dog, guide dog, disability rights, housing accommodations, fair housing, landlord, rental housing, homeowners association, HOA, Minnesota human services, accessible housing, reasonable accommodation
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Mar 20th, 2025
S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health
Transcript Highlights:
- They allow industry to rate and in the food industry, they have generally accepted safe products.
- vital to earning industry certifications, uh, being compliant in district accountability, A through F ratings
- You have to find the vendor that'll print your, your packaging, your labeling, and then get it into your
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- regulate insurance rates?
- , they have cheaper rates.
- to lower rates.
- rate that's being filed, it has no impact on that rate that's being filed.
- To raise rates, then another carrier can come in and just charge a lesser rate.
Keywords:
insurance, nonadmitted insurers, surplus lines, insurance regulation, Oklahoma, health insurance, contracting entities, medical providers, enrollment, beneficiary rights, property and casualty, rates, filing, Insurance Commissioner, regulation, property, regulations, actuary, rate filing, independent review
TX
TX
TX
Keywords:
real property, fraud, theft, elderly, disabled, statute of limitations, criminal offense, property rights, property tax, ad valorem tax, voter-approval tax rate, no-new-revenue tax rate, tax rate calculation, Tax Code, local government finance, municipality, county, special taxing unit, sales and use tax, property tax cap
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- the voter approval tax rate, previously known as the rollback rate, for cities and counties from a certain
- Lowers the rollback of the old rollback rate, now the voter-approved rate, to two and a half percent.
- Affect debt rate setting across the state.
- current tax rates from 3.5% to 2.5% or less.
- They would allow them to increase the tax rate.
Keywords:
real property, fraud, theft, elderly, disabled, statute of limitations, criminal offense, property rights, property tax, ad valorem tax, voter-approval tax rate, no-new-revenue tax rate, tax rate calculation, Tax Code, local government finance, municipality, county, special taxing unit, sales and use tax, property tax cap
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Urban and Rural Development Committee Feb 12th, 2025
Urban and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- kind of helps that system that's already guided because the PSC would take information and set the rates
Keywords:
foreign investment, agriculture, property rights, critical infrastructure, sanctions, HB140, private sewer systems, wastewater utilities, Public Service Commission, PSC jurisdiction, utility regulation, rate setting, rate consolidation, affiliated systems, common ownership, private utilities, sewer rates, wastewater management, Alabama utilities, Jefferson County Board of Health
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Death rate. We are now the number one nation of human trafficking in the entire world.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Reimbursement rates are inadequate.
- insurance because it was a negotiated rate.
- This means that a cottage food vendor could sell items that are sold fresh and hot as...
- One is this contracted vendor, and that gets confusing fast.
- Some of the vendors that I assist with that.
Bills:
HB3000, HB2622, HB2283, HB541, HB1776, HB1803, HB1669, HB2588, HB220, HB3415, HB50, HB1314, HB 107, HB220, HB50, HB107
Keywords:
ambulance service, rural healthcare, grants, financial assistance, qualified counties, mental health, patient transport, female attendants, security measures, healthcare regulation, epinephrine, anaphylaxis, health care, school safety, training, emergency response, direct patient care, healthcare, physicians, medical services
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They are not consistently granted in-state tuition rates across all Texas institutions.
- these students, who are actively preparing for military service, receive resident tuition and fee rates
TX
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Rates of burnout in health care fields were at record highs before the COVID pandemic.
- Rates of burnout are at an all-time high in medicine. It is a real problem with real consequences.
- This bill seeks a reimbursement rate for home-based treatment at about $750 per infant.
- This bill establishes a two-code rate methodology that supplements the current reimbursement.
- Requiring medical assistance to cover this service at a sustainable rate is critical.
Keywords:
health care transparency, ownership disclosure, control reporting, health care consolidation, private equity, management services organization, MSO, provider organization, health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, hospital system, affiliate reporting, financial disclosure, public reporting, market concentration, horizontal consolidation, vertical consolidation, health care ownership, corporate practice, health care regulation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/25
Health Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Higher mortality rates, communities.
- Rates of burnout in health care fields were at record highs before the COVID pandemic, and those rates
- Rates of burnout in health care fields were at record highs before the COVID pandemic, and those rates
- Rates of burnout are at an 1645.
- ><c> of</c><00:23:18.559><c> early</c> data shows that rates of early data shows that rates of early
Keywords:
health care transparency, ownership disclosure, control reporting, health care consolidation, private equity, management services organization, MSO, provider organization, health insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, hospital system, affiliate reporting, financial disclosure, public reporting, market concentration, horizontal consolidation, vertical consolidation, health care ownership, corporate practice, health care regulation
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Health Services (1-9-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> atrip program the hospital rate atrip program the hospital rate Improvement<00:26:05.600><c> plan
- We are very excited to be here today to share the wonderful success of the Hospital Rate Improvement
- So this is bringing those payments up to 95% of the average commercial rate.
- That is not a negotiated rate. The federal government sets that price through regulations.
- </c><00:51:16.720><c> the</c> that is not a negotiated rate the that is not a negotiated rate the federal
Keywords:
00:00 Call to Order/Roll Call
00:16 Consideration of Referred Administrative Regulations
25:49 Discussion of Hospital Rate Improvement Plan
58:50 Adjournment, 958, all
Summary:
The committee began by reviewing a large slate of administrative regulations and explaining that it does not approve regulations but can find them deficient and send them back for further work. Members then asked questions on several items, including EMS reciprocity, dental hygienist licensure, and interpreter licensure. The EMS board explained that reciprocity would extend to applicants from any state, not just contiguous states, because the underlying statute had been amended. On the dental regulation, staff said the changes mainly clarified licensure requirements, reinstatement fees, and that dental hygienists administering local anesthetic must do so under direct dentist supervision.
The most extended discussion involved the Board of Interpreters for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The board chair said the main concern was that the EIPA is an educational specialty assessment, not a nationally recognized certification, yet the regulation would allow it to support full licensure. Members discussed whether that could let educational interpreters work outside their intended scope and whether a separate educational license or statutory change would be more appropriate. The board said it did not think the regulation could be fixed further at this point and suggested a statute could create a narrower educational interpreter license. After discussion, the committee voted to defer both related interpreter regulations, 201 KAR 39:030 and the companion regulation, for further work.
The committee then took up two community mental health regulations, 907 KAR 1:044 and 907 KAR 5:005, which had been found deficient in Administrative Regulations. Department for Medicaid Services staff said the rules would expand and rename the mental health associate role as a behavioral health associate, making the role available in many more facilities, but would also require additional coursework or progress toward licensure. Some members and providers raised access-to-care concerns, especially for rural areas and unlicensed staff already working in the field. Staff said the proposal had been revised through work with CMHCs and licensing boards, but the committee ultimately voted to defer both regulations as well.
After finishing the regulation review, the committee heard a presentation from the Kentucky Hospital Association on the ATRIP hospital rate improvement program. Hospital representatives said ATRIP is a Medicaid state-directed payment program funded through a provider tax and federal matching dollars, allowing hospitals to receive payments tied to quality measures. They reported improvements including lower Medicaid readmissions, high sepsis screening rates, reduced infections and opioid prescribing, expanded postpartum depression and suicide screening, and training for more than 1,000 people. They said the program has helped hospitals invest in staffing and quality improvement and warned that without it, many hospitals would face severe financial strain.