Video & Transcript Research : 'Medicaid'
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Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections Jan 21st, 2026
Constitution, Campaigns and Elections
Keywords:
parental rights, drag performances, public schools, public libraries, overnight programs, gender identity, minor safety, HB89, Medicaid, pregnant women, pregnancy, prenatal care, ambulatory prenatal care, presumptive eligibility, temporary Medicaid coverage, Alabama Medicaid Agency, maternal health, low-income women, health coverage, eligibility determination
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Yes, the Medicaid spending is a recurring expense to the state.
- This legislation here does nothing to shrink the Medicaid expansion.
- This isn't Strengthening Medicaid, it's weakening its foundation.
- I noticed that when Arkansas took Medicaid expansion, Obamacare, and passed it.
- This bill does absolutely nothing to cut Medicaid.
Keywords:
Medicaid, low-income adults, healthcare, eligibility restrictions, constitutional amendment, Medicaid expansion, SoonerCare, health coverage, federal matching funds, FMAP, Article XXV-A, state question, special election, Title 63, public assistance, healthcare funding, federal-state match, Medicaid eligibility, Oklahoma Constitution, ad valorem
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 23, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Transcript Highlights:
- One is SF 4, Medicaid rate increase for EMS services, and SF 6, eligibility for Medicaid criteria.
- It's about Medicaid. We already have Medicaid.
- It's about Medicaid. We already have Medicaid.
- "We already have Medicaid.
- these services, Medicaid, in 14 years. these services, Medicaid, in 14 years.
Bills:
HB0004
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Labor, Health & Social Services Committee, February 23, 2026
Labor, Health & Social Services
Bills:
HB0004
TX
Bills:
HB316
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services May 5th, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Bills:
HJR40
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MS
Transcript Highlights:
- I do work with Medicaid a bit and the MCOs with Medicaid.
- I do know when we're looking at pain medicines with Medicaid and the MCOs within Medicaid, that's the
- in Medicaid. in Medicaid.
- Medicaid could be significant. Medicaid could be significant.
- the state share portion to Medicaid. the state share portion to Medicaid.
Summary:
The committee heard presentations on several Medicaid-related topics. First, a pharmacy representative discussed nonopioid pain medications as a way to reduce opioid dependence and overdose risk, emphasizing that options such as acetaminophen, NSAIDs, and topical diclofenac can be useful for pain management. She cautioned that nonopioids can still have risks and said any policy should avoid requiring patients to step through opioids before accessing safer alternatives, while still allowing reasonable step therapy among nonopioid options. The presenter said the goal is to keep patients from being pushed toward opioids by cost or insurance design.
The committee also heard emotional testimony from parents of a child with Prader-Willi syndrome, who described the condition as a rare genetic disorder that causes severe, lifelong hyperphagia and requires rigid supervision and ongoing treatment. They argued that alternative funding programs can disrupt access to medically necessary drugs such as human growth hormone, forcing families into costly and uncertain coverage gaps. They asked lawmakers to ensure insurance coverage remains stable for rare disease patients and thanked Senator Blackwell for prior support of rare disease legislation.
Next, a Livanova representative urged the committee to support higher Medicaid reimbursement for vagus nerve stimulator surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy. He said inadequate hospital reimbursement has reduced access in Mississippi, causing patients to travel long distances or go without treatment, and argued that better reimbursement would improve outcomes and save money over time. He cited studies showing seizure reductions, lower ER use, and a projected $2.8 million in five-year savings for Medicaid based on 40 patients, and asked that hospitals be reimbursed at 100% of Medicare rates for the procedure codes.
Finally, a Medicaid official gave a broad overview of hospital payment structure, including fee-for-service, managed care, MHAP, DSH, UPL, provider taxes, and related funding mechanisms. She explained that hospital payments are interrelated and have shifted over time, with major changes tied to managed care, MHAP/UPL increases, and provider taxes. At the end of the discussion, the committee was running short on time and asked her to skip ahead to the provider tax component; no votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.
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Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Medicaid - Room 216, 3 February, 2026; 10:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman and members of the Senate Medicaid Committee.
- Senate Bill 2674 is about access to care, hospital stability, and fairness in how Mississippi's Medicaid
- procedures is significantly below Medicare and below most southern states. in how Mississippi's Medicaid
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savings.
Summary:
The Senate Medicaid Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 2674, which would increase Mississippi Medicaid reimbursement for outpatient vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) procedures used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy. Dave Weinberger of LivaNova said current Medicaid rates are far below Medicare and most neighboring southern states, creating financial pressure on hospitals and causing some to stop offering the procedure. He argued the therapy provides durable clinical benefits and long-term savings for Medicaid, and said the bill would align Mississippi’s rates with Medicare’s 2026 outpatient rates and with other states.
Weinberger said the bill would set reimbursement at $45,000 for CPT 64568 and $35,000 for CPT 61885, and framed the measure as improving access, hospital stability, and fairness for vulnerable patients. Committee members did not ask questions during this hearing, though the chair noted the bill had been double referred and would go to appropriations, with a more detailed hearing scheduled for the next day.
After discussion, a motion was made that the title was sufficient and the bill do pass. The committee approved the motion, and the bill was reported out of committee.
MS
Transcript Highlights:
- get Medicaid pay reimbursement.
- business and finance, Medicaid, you all wrote in one.
- Uh, we're going to try to give you the committee Medicaid 101, if you would, on how we pay for Medicaid
- to give you um the committee Medicaid to give you um the committee Medicaid 101<00:09:08.720>
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Summary:
The committee first took up a placeholder bill related to the Medicaid “L tax” for long-term acute care hospitals. The sponsor explained that these hospitals pay into Medicaid but do not receive Medicaid reimbursement, and said members had reached a general consensus that a solution is needed. The bill was described as a dummy bill with no firm language yet, and the committee adopted a motion for title sufficient do pass; the bill was reported despite one opposing vote.
Members then heard a detailed explanation of the committee’s Medicaid technical bill. The sponsor said it was much lighter than in prior years because of uncertainty around federal Medicaid conditions and the lack of a signed bill in recent years. Most changes were described as federal-language updates, cleanup, or department-requested revisions, including changes from “shall” to “may” to give the department more flexibility, shortened notification and care-period timelines, and removal of outdated provisions. Substantive items mentioned included allowing the department to review value-based payment models, adding pediatricians to a covered list, increasing ambulatory surgery center reimbursement from 80% to 85%, approving “treat in place” for ambulances, allowing supplemental payments to hospitals, and reestablishing the Medical Advisory Council.
After brief questions, the committee adopted a motion for title sufficient do pass on the tech bill and reported it, again with one opposing vote. The chair then announced a follow-up hearing for the next day at 1:30 p.m. in Room 216 on the L tax, the hospital bed tax, a Medicaid 101 overview on hospital financing, and a briefing on nonopioid medications and a device intended to prevent or reduce epilepsy seizures.
MS
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill will basically allow a border hospital to take and treat Medicaid payments or Medicaid patients
- forward for the purpose of addressing income verification for programs with DHS and would also be Medicaid
- forward for the purpose of addressing income verification for programs with DHS and would also be Medicaid
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to and this probably will trickle down to and this probably will trickle down to Medicaid - Um but it's primarily Medicaid as well.
Summary:
The committee considered five bills. SB 2567, the Mississippi Pediatric Access to Critical Health Care Protection Act, would allow a border hospital to accept Medicaid patients and payments; it was moved as title sufficient and reported, with one member opposing. SB 2571, the Foster Youth Earn Benefit Protection for Success Act, would require Social Security survivor or disability benefits for foster youth to be used for the child rather than reimbursing the state for foster care costs; the sponsor said the bill follows federal guidance and other states’ practices, and it was reported after a title-sufficient motion, with one opposition.
SB 2708 would require insurers to cover postpartum depression screenings. Senator Boyd said most insurers already do this, and he offered an amendment to strike lines 364-368 because of concerns about step-therapy language; the committee adopted the amendment and then reported the bill. SB 2765 would open code sections related to DHS and Medicaid income verification so Mississippi can respond to federal error-rate penalties tied to SNAP and related programs; Senator Sparks said the state’s 10.69% error rate could trigger about $128 million in annual penalties, and members discussed whether the state’s change-reporting rules may be inflating that rate. The bill was reported.
The final bill, SB 2746, the Older Mississippians Act, was described by DHS as a cleanup measure that updates aging-services statutes, formally designates Mississippi as the state unit on aging, and removes obsolete program references. After brief discussion, it was reported on a title-sufficient motion. At the end of the meeting, Senator McMahan publicly thanked the chair for his work, and the committee then moved to rise and report.
MS
Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Medicaid - Room 210; 45 March, 2025: 2:30 PM
MS
Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Medicaid - Room 216, 13 March, 2025; 9:30 AM
MS
Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Medicaid - Room 216, 3 March, 2025; 3:30 PM
MS
Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Medicaid - Room 216, 4 February, 2025; 11:00 AM
MS
Mississippi 2025 Regular Session
Medicaid - Room 216, 29 January, 2025; 10:30 AM
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations and Revenue (2-14-24)
Keywords:
KY LRC YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcL0JsBeZTI, 2026-06-21T07:17:06+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:07
Medicaid Nursing Home Rate Rebase 00:00:33
Medicaid Funding Sources 00:10:06
Personnel Cabinet Update on Classification & Compensation Report 00:31:00
NKY Medical Examiner Office & KSP Crime Lab 00:39:12
Medicaid Out-of-State Reimbursement Rate 00:55:22, 958, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 12th, 2025
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- the Alabama Maternal Health Care Act, would provide presumptive eligibility to pregnant women for Medicaid
- , this presumes that if you come in and in good faith tell us that your income would qualify for Medicaid
- Your income would qualify for Medicaid, and we would assume that for pregnancy Medicaid.
Keywords:
elections, post-election audit, election audit, risk-limiting audit, ballot audit, election integrity, voter confidence, Secretary of State, judge of probate, canvassing board, poll watchers, ballot containers, manual tally, recount, county election, statewide election, general election, absentee ballots, provisional ballots, election transparency
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine combating the opioid epidemic. Feb 26th, 2025 at 02:30 pm
Aging (Special) Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- It's why protecting Medicaid is so critical.
- Medicaid is the primary payer for substance use disorder treatment.
- Sure, I think Medicaid is vital.
- If we were to cut Medicaid, I think we would have to cut Medicaid.
- Whether, you know, whether it's a Medicare program, Medicaid program.
Keywords:
opioid crisis, overdose, naloxone, drug trafficking, law enforcement, treatment, prevention, older adults, Medicaid expansion
Summary:
The meeting convened to address the dire opioid crisis affecting communities nationwide, with a particular focus on the alarming rise of opioid use disorder among older adults. Key testimonies highlighted the critical need for a comprehensive approach that encompasses prevention, treatment, and strict law enforcement actions against drug traffickers. Sheriff Dennis Lima from Seminole County outlined successful strategies implemented in Florida, including increased access to naloxone and legislative changes to hold drug dealers accountable for overdoses. Various members expressed a united front on tackling this multifaceted issue, advocating for the expansion of Medicaid and better access to treatment as essential steps to curbing the epidemic.
AL
Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 4th, 2026
County and Municipal Government
Keywords:
income tax, research expenditures, economic development, tax deductions, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Alabama tax law, educational intervention, State Superintendent, local boards of education, subpoena, accountability, state control, electric vehicles, registrations, license tax, public transportation, funding infrastructure, K-12 education, wireless communication devices, digital safety