Video & Transcript Research : 'utilization review'

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 17th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • ...I think when you look at utilization review, Mr.
  • When we're talking about utilization review, which is reviewing the chart after the care has been provided
  • review.
  • I mean that's, that is utilization. review. I mean, that is what that process is designed for.
  • Right now, there are about 900,000 Texans who utilize Medigap.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:03:16.640> commission legislative audit and review commission legislative audit and review
  • <00:04:47.360> are rate payers when utilities are rate payers when utilities are integrating
  • > places<00:05:21.759> like I've reviewed studies from places like I've reviewed studies
  • <00:42:25.200> So RPS requirement for utilities. So RPS requirement for utilities.
  • Utilizing these demand response.
Bills: HF2928, HF2912, HF2297
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • allow members of the public, elected officials, or leadership from other agencies to request such a review
  • Each initiated review will allow for public comment and input through a 30-day public comment period.
  • state agency's rulemaking authority; rather, the process This process will initiate a coordinated review
  • In reviewing House Bill 4730, it's clear that the drafters intended to add more protections and more
  • The three-share program has been around for a long time, and many people utilize it.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Apr 29th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • So someone submits their paperwork, and it goes through a review process.
  • The Office of Inspector General does utilization review audits, and so there's... ...they'll come in
  • review by Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), and child healthcare providers.
  • review.
  • review practices to support the providers who care, again, for our most vulnerable.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • of education establishes design review of education establishes design review special special special
  • It's design review. >> Mr. I appreciate your testimony.
  • It's design review. do. It's design review.
  • So of the 2,000, how many are you actively reviewing? >> Did you say spot basis?
  • We typically will do a review of public.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

WLA Public Hearing 02-04-2026

Water, Land, Culture and the Arts

Transcript Highlights:
  • consequences of these halfway reviews. consequences of these halfway reviews.
  • We are not in favor of phased review.
  • We are not in favor of phased review.
  • Um we are not in favor of phased review. Um we are not in favor of phased review.
  • >> Jessica, did you have a chance to review >> Jessica, did you have a chance to review
Summary: The committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 2603, which would designate the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra as the state orchestra of Hawaii. Testimony was uniformly supportive from the Attorney General’s office, the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, Hawaii Youth Symphony, the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association, and others. Supporters emphasized the bill’s value to arts education, cultural vitality, and the visitor economy. The chair noted there were also many written testimonies submitted, and the bill was left without questions or action in the excerpt. The committee then took up Senate Bill 2083, which would create a state-owned historic properties preservation plan working group within DNR. The State Historic Preservation Division supported the bill and said it would help create a statewide database and better planning for state-owned historic properties, while noting its current review work is reactive and project-by-project. The committee asked about duplication and existing consultation processes; SHPD said it already reviews state projects under existing law and has in-house architectural staff. The measure was then set aside after brief discussion, with no vote shown in the excerpt. Next was Senate Bill 2341, which would authorize phased review of certain private-property projects and change SHPD’s review deadlines. SHPD and the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development supported the bill, saying it could encourage more proactive, programmatic review and that the current average review time for simple projects is about 56 days. Several opponents, including Sierra Club of Hawaii, Bianca Isaki, Malama Kane Lua, and Tara Roas, argued phased review would delay projects, create conflict, and weaken historic preservation protections, especially for iwi kūpuna and burial sites. Committee members raised concerns about whether the bill conflicted with prior court decisions and asked SHPD for its view; SHPD said it was not a legal question for them and suggested a programmatic alternative. The bill was not voted on in the excerpt. Finally, the committee began hearing Senate Bill 2306 on administrative fees for the Bureau of Conveyances. HGEA opposed the measure, focusing on a provision allowing the special fund to be used for qualified contractors, while the Bureau of Conveyances supported the bill as a fee correction that would equalize recording fees between systems. The bureau said specialized technical work sometimes requires outside contracting and that it could consider a contract period; the chair and members discussed the HGEA concern and asked whether the issue could be addressed. No final action was shown in the excerpt.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AEN-TRS, EDT-AEN, AEN DEFER, AEN Public Hearings 02-13-2026

Agriculture and Environment

Transcript Highlights:
  • be able to be utilizing um that dog<00:14:55.839> in<00:14:56.240> at<00:14:56.240>
  • On SB 3154, and this is relating to transportation and the environmental review.
  • <00:18:50.720> This<00:18:50.960> authorizes environmental review.
  • This authorizes environmental review.
  • Um, but uh please review if you have the opportunity. >> Yeah.
Bills: SB2709, SB3154
Summary: The hearing began with SB 2709, which would require the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity to establish rules to enforce the Okami arrival program and strengthen quarantine enforcement for plants, non-domestic animals, and microorganisms. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Hawaii Invasive Species Council supported the bill, as did DAB, saying it would improve biosecurity and make some provisions mandatory rather than optional. Alaska/Hawaiian Airlines supported the goal but raised concerns about language changing inspections from “may” to “shall” for aircraft, warning of possible federal preemption and operational conflicts unless the bill is clarified to align with federal aviation safety, security, and operational requirements. Committee members questioned DAB about inspection timing, scope, and compliance; DAB said the measure is intended to increase enforcement, improve form completion rates toward a 90% goal, and expand beyond airlines to other entry modes, while also noting plans to restore detector dog use and improve software/AI tools for processing forms. Decision-making on SB 2709 was deferred to February 17 at 3:02 p.m. in Room CR229. The committees then took up SB 3154, an administration measure authorizing the Department of Transportation to assume certain National Environmental Policy Act responsibilities for highway, rail, public transportation, and multimodal projects, with the aim of streamlining environmental review. DOT supported the bill and explained that it would allow the department to work directly with federal resource agencies such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife and SHPO rather than routing everything through federal highways. After brief discussion, the Committee on Transportation voted to pass SB 3154 with technical amendments, and the AEN committee followed with the same recommendation; the measure was adopted with five votes in favor. A later portion of the transcript shifted to SB 2374 on the blue economy. DBED said it supported the concept but noted that it already sits on many working groups and would need resources if a new working group is created. DBED suggested the committee could instead request research through a letter or memo, and said agencies including ADC, HTDC, and Agriculture had already begun internal discussions. Testimony in support came from IMUA Alliance, Hawaii Food Policy, and others, emphasizing the potential for blue economy ventures to support survivors, align with climate and cultural goals, and create economic opportunity. No final vote on SB 2374 appears in the excerpt.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Next, we will review the referred administrative regulation.
  • If none, we will find these administrative regulations reviewed.
  • appreciate the work you all put in, and if there's nothing else, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. reviewed
  • so so unless anything changes reviewed so so unless anything changes this<00:04:31.759> will<
Summary: The House Standing Committee on Families and Children met and heard only House Bill 508, sponsored by Representative Jennifer Decker. Decker explained that the bill amends the child care assistance program created under House Bill 499 by requiring the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make the standardized agreement available on its website and allow submission by email, mail, or an online portal, rather than limiting participants to the current process. A member asked whether the change would expand options beyond online-only submission, and Decker confirmed the bill was intended to address that issue. After discussion, the committee voted on House Bill 508 and passed it favorably by a 13-0 vote. The committee then briefly reviewed a referred administrative regulation; there were no comments or questions, and it was marked reviewed. The chair noted this would likely be the committee’s last meeting of the session, thanked staff for their work, and entertained a motion to adjourn.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Aug 21st, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Quality reviews will include student answers for each question on the end-of-the-year assessment.
  • They're also including provisions to ensure that we have a deliberate timeline for review and an oversight
  • I don't have time to go over this now, but I would like to get a review again of how those tests...
  • To review assessment items and accountability indicators, and we strongly urge that the accountability
  • We look at... ...to them to do passage development and item development, to review for sensitivity and
Bills: HB8
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Aug 21st, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • For educators, The bill establishes a formal review process to ensure teachers help shape assessments
  • don't necessarily have some state assessments that tell us something about writing or that we can utilize
  • Given the large number of students affected, this policy merits further review.
  • Having additional reviewers, either contracted or part of higher education, in addition to true teacher
  • testimony by that organization because I stand by their written statement, so I encourage you to review
Bills: HB8
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Public Education Aug 21st, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • It also prioritizes transparency for parents by ensuring they can review student answers for each question
  • They’re also including provisions around making sure that we have a deliberate timeline for review and
  • So they're taking a risk of a $50 hit per student to have these tests and scores reviewed.
  • So they're taking a risk of a $50 hit per student to have these tests and scores reviewed.
  • So, in my previous role, I reviewed a lot of the state plans that states submitted to the Department
Bills: HB8
Summary: The House Committee on Public Education met to hear House Bill 8, which would replace STAAR with a new assessment and accountability system beginning in the 2027-28 school year. The chair described the bill as reducing testing time, limiting benchmark tests, adding beginning-, middle-, and end-of-year assessments, requiring faster score turnaround, involving Texas teachers in test development, and tightening accountability timelines and transparency rules. Members also discussed provisions on A-F ratings, cut scores, CCMR, local accountability plans, and TEA reporting requirements. Committee members and invited witnesses split sharply on the bill’s approach. Supporters, including the chair, TEA Commissioner Mike Morath, and Ed Trust’s Nicholas Munyon Penny, argued the bill would reduce high-stakes pressure, provide quicker and more actionable data, limit over-testing, and better align assessments to Texas standards while preserving criterion-referenced accountability. They said the new system would help teachers and parents intervene sooner and would improve transparency, including parent access to student responses and automatic rescoring in some writing cases. Opponents, including Rep. Hinojosa and student witness Ella Moran, argued the bill still increases testing and replaces one high-stakes test with multiple TEA-created tests. Moran testified that STAAR creates anxiety, disrupts instruction, and does not reflect real learning, while Hinojosa said the House had previously passed a better bill based on a nationally norm-referenced model and criticized the new proposal as a concession to the Senate. Questions also focused on AI scoring of writing, rescoring rates, and whether the bill’s new accountability rules would be reliable and fair. The committee did not take a final vote during the portion provided, but the chair said a vote on HB 8 would be called after public testimony later in the day.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Property Tax Appraisals Apr 17th, 2025

S/C on Property Tax Appraisals

Transcript Highlights:
  • Take the same courses required for pay as review board members. and cap their arbitration fees based
  • The review board may not consider as evidence the market value of the property subject.
  • Okay, so based on the language of the substitute that parties may not present appraisal Review Board
  • And they hand that to the appraisal review board as evidence. They cannot accept that.
  • I'll point out that that is only as a result of our going through the appraisal review board process.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • So utilizing a variety of different data points, including Medicare fee-for-service and census data,
  • Seeing none, we find this administrative regulation to be reviewed.
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  • administrative regulation to be reviewed administrative regulation to be reviewed and<00:10:08.040
Summary: The committee met with a quorum, passed over House Bill 291, and took up House Bill 479, an act related to dementia training. Rep. Derek Lewis, joined by Rep. Adriel Camel and Mackenzie Wallace of the Alzheimer’s Association, explained that the bill would provide free dementia-specific training for Adult Protective Services workers and help them better recognize and respond to abuse, neglect, exploitation, and the needs of people with dementia. Testimony emphasized the personal impact of dementia on families, the difficulty of navigating diagnosis and care, and the need to connect families to services. A senator asked about the bill’s data and scope, and Wallace explained that the county-level figures reflected Adult Protective Services referrals and diagnosed cases of Alzheimer’s or other dementia among people 65 and older. She also noted broader public health efforts related to brain health and a federal grant effort tied to those issues. Several members spoke in support, including Sen. Denine, who described his father’s recent death after a difficult period with dementia and said the training would help families and workers identify and respond to the disease earlier. After discussion, Sen. Heron moved the bill, the motion was seconded, and the committee voted 6-0 to pass House Bill 479 with favorable expression. The chair said it should pass on the Senate floor. Afterward, the committee briefly reviewed administrative regulation 921 KAR 2:100 and found it reviewed with no questions. A child care block grant item was also presented for information only, with no questions raised. The meeting then adjourned.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 9th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Or do you also utilize contract pharmacies?
  • It could be utilization, it could be, again, the mixes, and so forth.
  • Our outside counsel had to determine which alias to utilize.
  • Instead, they utilize a tactic known as swoop and settle.
  • Written releases are always utilized.