Video & Transcript Research : 'evaluation'
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OR
Oregon 2026 Regular Session
Attorney General Rayfield Press Event: Medicaid Fraud Enforcement Record Jun 23rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- After I took office, we were continuing to evaluate our current capacity here at the Oregon Department
- additional FTE, which the legislature granted in the 25-27 session, and we're going to be continuing to evaluate
Summary:
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield held a press event marking National Health Care Fraud Takedown Day to highlight the state’s Medicaid fraud enforcement work and announce four new criminal filings. He said the Oregon Department of Justice’s Medicaid Fraud Unit, which includes investigators, auditors, attorneys, data analysts, and a nurse investigator, has secured hundreds of convictions and settlements since 2010 and recently received additional staffing from the legislature. He framed the work as bipartisan and aimed at protecting vulnerable Oregonians, recovering taxpayer dollars, and deterring fraud.
The announced cases involved alleged provider or vendor fraud rather than Medicaid recipients: Ed Morgan of Beaverton was charged in connection with housing assistance funds tied to a health-related social needs program; Linda Thomas and her company, Gateway of Willamette Valley, were charged with billing Medicaid for day support services not provided; and Amanda Thorne, a former Lane County employee, was charged with using a government credit card for personal purchases. Rayfield also noted recent progress in other cases, including a nurse who pleaded no contest to false billing and theft and was sentenced to jail, probation, and restitution, and a medical transportation company owner recently charged with billing for services not provided.
In response to questions, Rayfield said Oregon staff attended a federal meeting on Medicaid fraud despite late notice and political tensions, emphasizing that fraud enforcement should remain bipartisan. He said the federal landscape is complicated by cuts to enforcement staff even as there is talk of increased enforcement, and that states have had to step up. He also said Oregon’s managed care system has not been a major barrier to investigations, which typically begin with complaints and are developed with partner agencies. No votes or formal legislative actions were taken at the event.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Local and County Government Feb 10th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Local and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Certainly, the Department of Environmental Quality evaluates all campsites and permits for a campsite
- If such an evaluation finds a campsite does not meet basic environmental and sanitation standards, why
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Public School Capital Outlay Council Aug 27th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- When we are making new awards, how are we evaluating them?
- projects done, and two, so that we can... ...potentially think about how we use that same level of evaluation
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Jun 30th, 2025
Emergency Management
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 12th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The EQB repeals a mandatory report to the legislature on evaluation and recommendations for mandatory
- In committee, they also said that the evaluation of mandatory categories can be better accomplished through
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- other bills like it because it creates an overly broad and loosely defined state mechanism for evaluating
- other bills like it because it creates an overly broad and loosely defined state mechanism for evaluating
- In Germany and France, national health technology assessment bodies evaluate drugs for clinical and economic
- These evaluations ensure governments spend wisely and patients get value.
- By requiring accountability standards and systematic evaluations of clinical value, this bill can bring
Summary:
The committee held a lengthy hearing on a large docket of pharmacy and drug-pricing bills, with most testimony focused on PBM reform, 340B drug discount program protections, specialty medication access, and medication adherence. Chair James Murphy and Senator Paul Feeney opened the hearing and took testimony from legislators, patient advocates, pharmacists, health center leaders, industry representatives, and policy groups. Several speakers described delays, denials, high out-of-pocket costs, and pharmacy closures tied to PBM practices, while others emphasized the importance of community health centers and independent pharmacies in serving patients.
On the 340B program, supporters including Senator Eldridge, Senator Payano, Community Care Cooperative, Fenway Health, the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, and several community health center leaders argued that bills such as H. 1107 and S. 819 would stop discriminatory PBM and manufacturer practices, preserve contract pharmacy access, and protect safety-net providers that say they reinvest savings into care, pharmacy expansion, interpreter services, behavioral health, and other services. Opponents including PhRMA, the Community Liver Alliance, and a public policy analyst argued the program lacks transparency and accountability, has grown beyond its original purpose, and may benefit large hospitals and for-profit entities more than low-income patients. They urged more reporting and oversight rather than expanding protections.
On PBM reform, testimony supported bills including H. 1157, H. 1234, S. 724, S. 831, and related measures that would require rebate pass-through, ban spread pricing, limit steering to PBM-owned pharmacies, and improve reimbursement for community pharmacies. Independent pharmacists and patients said current PBM practices raise costs, create administrative burdens, and threaten access to local pharmacies. PCMA, representing PBMs, opposed the reforms, arguing PBMs lower costs, that plan sponsors choose to contract with them, and that the Health Policy Commission and CHIA should complete their ongoing study before new mandates are adopted. The committee also heard support for H. 1322 and S. 734 on specialty medications, and for H. 781 and H. 1305 on medication synchronization to improve adherence. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.
AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING Jun 5th, 2026
LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING
Transcript Highlights:
- And correct me if I'm wrong: this was determined through the evaluation of the internal controls, is
- It wasn't—it was part of the process of an audit evaluating your controls, and this is the result of
- that evaluation of the internal controls.
- What's the current process for evaluating the logs that are being, you're obviously consolidating those
- We were waiting until we got the findings from this review, or not investigation, but the evaluation
Summary:
The committee met to adopt prior minutes and reports from its executive and standing committees, including counties and municipalities, educational institutions, and state agencies. Those reports covered routine audit activity, delinquent private water and sewer audits, municipal accounting compliance issues, education audit findings, and several state agency audit items. The committee also reviewed and adopted the State of Arkansas annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year 2025 and the related single audit report, both presented by Legislative Audit staff.
The state financial report showed unmodified opinions on the state’s financial statements and described total assets of about $41.9 billion and liabilities of about $11.1 billion, along with retirement system assets of $39.9 billion and a net pension liability of $9 billion. Two material weaknesses were identified: insufficient internal controls at the Office of State Technology to monitor threats and unauthorized access, and a Division of Workforce Services methodology change for unemployment-related estimates that was not properly documented or approved. The single audit covered $12.4 billion in federal awards across 469 programs, with 16 major programs reviewed; it resulted in 33 findings, 14 with questioned costs totaling $16.6 million, and qualified opinions for the Summer EBT program, the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund, and the Child Care Development Fund cluster.
Members questioned agency officials in detail about the Summer EBT questioned costs, DHS unresolved findings, broadband grant documentation, cyber security controls, workers’ compensation liabilities, and child care funding and reporting. DHS explained that the Summer EBT issue involved drawing federal funds in advance rather than as benefits were redeemed, and said the process has been corrected. Broadband officials said the questioned $6.6 million reflected documentation-detail disagreements across many invoices rather than missing payments. OST officials described new logging, endpoint detection, and phishing-training efforts, and DFA and Education officials addressed specific audit findings and corrective actions. The committee ultimately moved to hold the two large statewide reports over until the August meeting for further review, with discussion continuing on whether to release some agency staff in the meantime.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- retroactivity piece of this is one PBM paying back to January 1 on something that they completely evaluated
- saying it, which is basically two months when two of the other big three—that's 80% of the market—evaluated
- retroactivity piece of this is one PBM paying back to January 1st on something that they completely evaluated
- It's not only a regulator saying that. on something that they completely evaluated.
- saying it, which is basically two months when two of the other big three that's 80% of the market is evaluated
Keywords:
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Facing Minnesota's Affordability Crisis by Addressing Healthcare Costs and Home Construction Hurdles May 1st, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- hope that the next legislative session would be able to take this information and, number one, re-evaluate
- take this information and number able to take this information and number one,<00:25:35.280>
re-evaluate - one, re-evaluate one, re-evaluate its<00:25:37.920>
own <00:25:38.680>responsibilities - The first thing I would do is, at the state level, evaluate every program that's out there and every
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 19th, 2026 at 08:53 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Many evaluations is a teacher responsible for during the school year. Mr. President, I can't.
- physical therapist or the occupational therapist who a patient has been referred to for a medical evaluation
- DFA are required to do certain things, develop joint agency instructions, submit accountability evaluations
- President, it's a preferential evaluation method. I'm sorry, could you repeat that? Sure.
- It's a preferential evaluation method, Mr. President.
Keywords:
SB273, appropriations, general fund, hold harmless, local government finance, municipal revenue, county revenue, correctional facility, jail contract, private prison, detention facility, immigration detention, revenue bonds, clawback, child welfare, juvenile justice, protective services, school improvement, New MexiCare, aging services
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- The lack of consistency in this evaluation is a little confusing and causing some controversial issues
- The lack of consistency in this evaluation is a little confusing and causing some controversial issues
- So how would the pipeline come into play in this evaluation in reducing this to ag versus commercial
- So how does the pipeline change the evaluation from?
- How does the pipeline change the evaluation from ag land to, I mean, again, I'm just asking questions
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Dec 11th, 2025 at 01:30 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- of whether cybersecurity is compliant or not by them being able to enter the system and make an evaluation
- for an IT project for them—and so that 200 is a cost gap that was recommended from an LFC program evaluation
- provision in it that pushed the Department to use the highest rigor of evidence. and research in evaluating
- pilot program, and the intent is to test out the pilot program to see if it works through rigorous evaluation
- . evaluation, and if it does, make decisions about how to start scaling it up to more schools and school
UT
Utah 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Interim Committee - November 19, 2025
Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Interim Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The division started that process and began to evaluate, by engaging with stakeholders and also other
- I want to share that this is probably going to be at least a few-year, multi-year process if we evaluate
- And then put a good step forward for you all to evaluate.
- We're going to evaluate, we are evaluating, pardon me, the current bonding regulations.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, so our initiative will Evaluate all of our residential childcare and daycare, childcare center minimum
- And it resulted in our agency engaging an independent entity to evaluate our minimum standards within
- In the, uh, emergency room, for example, there's a thing called it an evaluation and management code.
- And an evaluation and management code in an ER includes things like the administration of a shot of an
- Uh, the evaluation and management code includes the cost of giving that injection.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So our initiative will evaluate all of our. residential child care and daycare child care center minimum
- coming from SB 593 of last session and it resulted in our agency engaging an independent entity to evaluate
- In the emergency room, for example, there's a thing called an evaluation. and management code, and an
- evaluation and management code in an ER includes things like the administration of a shot, of an injection
- The Evaluation and Management Code includes the cost of giving that injection, and unfortunately we've
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative presentation of The American Legion and multi VSOs: Minority Veterans of America, Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A, National Association of County Veterans Servic Feb 26th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Senate Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- challenges they face with proactive interventions, strong public-private partnerships, and rigorous evaluation
- stronger accountability, and We urge Congress to establish enhanced standards for data collection and evaluation
- A recent RAND report found that few of these programs have undergone on rigorous, independent evaluation
- As the only program of evaluated by a third party, O2O stands as evidence that community-led efforts
- additional resources to nonprofits that demonstrate measurable, positive outcomes, and to require evaluation
Keywords:
veteran services, homelessness, unemployment, VA funding, mental health, congressional oversight, testimonies, American Legion, Dole Act, suicide prevention
Summary:
This meeting focused on veteran services, emphasizing the urgent need to address the alarming rate of unemployment and homelessness among veterans. Numerous testimonies were presented detailing the impact of mass furloughs and cutbacks at the VA on personnel, notably veterans who were serving as employees. Various representatives expressed deep concern over how these firings could drastically affect the quality of care available to those who have served the nation. There was a strong call for Congress to bolster funding for existing programs aimed at alleviating veteran homelessness and improving overall care quality, especially in mental health services.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- The families who cannot pay hundreds of dollars for evaluations.
- hundreds of dollars for evaluations. hundreds of dollars for evaluations.
- score just high enough on re-evaluations score just high enough on re-evaluations even<01:03:46.559
- deserves access to affordable evaluation deserves access to affordable evaluation and<01:05:11.280
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NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Health and Human Services (02/18/2026)
Health and Human Services
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NH
Transcript Highlights:
- It doesn't really say when that evaluation is going to happen. It can be a month goes by.
- It doesn't really say when that evaluation is going to happen. It can be a month goes by.
- . evaluation. evaluation.
- It can be evaluation is going to happen.
- that Madora's psychiatric evaluations that Madora's psychiatric evaluations warned<04:36:33.760>
NH
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- We intentionally wrote all the assumptions here so everyone can evaluate exactly what we've done here
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exactly here so everyone can evaluate exactly here so everyone can evaluate - The amount needed for contingency reserves is included in this actuarial evaluation in the materials
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the program the evaluation shall assess the program the evaluation shall assess the adequacy