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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Mar 19th, 2025

Insurance

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  • Cost and Coverage Program at UT Health Science Center in Houston.
  • So first, small businesses want to provide health care and health care coverage for their employees.
  • the potential benefit is to providing those coverage to the health care.
  • In doing so, we have but we can help preserve employer-sponsored health coverage, which is very important
  • of health?
Bills: HB138, HB335, HB388, HB138
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Mar 19th, 2025

Insurance

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  • Charles Miller, Director of Health and Economic Mobility, you show voting for the bill.
  • benefit plan. issuers or administrators, and expenses for enrollees, health plans, and policy makers
  • of benefits questionnaire that will be made available to health care providers.
  • Abel Longoria, and I represent Hospitality Health 24-hour emergency rooms.
  • This bill offers a simple solution to what has unfortunately proven to be a barrier to health care coverage
Bills: HB138, HB335, HB388, HB138
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance May 7th, 2025

Insurance

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  • benefit plan to provide. coverage for biomarker testing.
  • Since it would be on the health insurance plan, right?
  • My name is Christopher Hamilton, CEO of Texas Health Action.
  • These prior authorizations aren't adding to health outcomes; they aren't improving people's health outcomes
  • issues of health care.
TX
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  • coverage for their kids.
  • The bill includes anti-gag clause protections for health coverages that normally are not subject to state
  • We don't want a health care system. where children can be taken advantage of by health care providers
  • Now he has serious health issues.
  • Nora Cox, Texas Health Alliance.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Mar 17th, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

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  • coverage parity that exists.
  • plan regulated by the state of Texas could not offer mental health or substance abuse coverage limits
  • People have less, you know, less physical health issues and. when they actually get the coverage they
  • Their mental health, serious mental health... illnesses can be dealt with efficiently and quickly, which
  • capital have less mental health coverage. virgin protections than we offer in the commercial market
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Jan 30th, 2026 at 03:13 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

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  • Could be a reason that you're denied coverage.
  • Primary care is the gatekeeper to health care services.
  • Primary care is the gatekeeper to health care services.
  • We obviously have a very fragile health care delivery safety net.
  • There was an $8 million start of health care center.
Bills: SB21, SB42, SB81, SB101, SB139
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/26

Health Finance and Policy

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  • Health insurance coverage for lawyers.
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Bills: HF4609, HF4401
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 30th, 2025

Insurance

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  • For new business to say, if you want to buy this coverage, we would like for you to also buy this coverage
  • David's. ...health care here in Austin. I'm here to testify in strong support of HB2076.
  • And I'm not saying that they're denying coverage, right?
  • These programs only alert health plans which lab claims filed are within policy coverage or not.
  • plans and thus lower costs for health plans.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 30th, 2025

Insurance

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  • doctor to join their practice, the new doctor must go through a lengthy credentialing process with health
  • If the provider is ultimately denied credentials, the provider's practice is required to pay the health
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The real The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services will come to order.
  • Generally then, for courts with mental health jurisdiction.
  • I also served as the Director of the Health Law and Policy.
  • plans. and other health MCOs are not allowed to inform enrollees about other health plan options because
  • Supported by the health plans, primary care consortium and Texas 24.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Health Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Health

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  • The Alabama Department of Public Health The Alabama Department of Public Health may<00:12:12.000
  • <00:12:17.920> thereafter Department of Health shall thereafter Department of Health shall thereafter
  • a Department of Health, or is that a...?
  • It says the Alabama Department of Health.
  • Your terms following health vice chair.
Bills: SB197, SB84, SB197, SB84
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 9th, 2025

Insurance

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  • As a result, they are unlikely to seek health care. services under the health plan.
  • Community health centers or Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), which serve over 1.8 million
  • One is patient access. and two is improving health and health programs.
  • We received the health records.
  • Their pharmaceutical coverage.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Insurance Apr 9th, 2025

Insurance

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  • Outside entities utilized by health plans are captured by adding "affiliate of a health insurance plan
  • Health plan prior authorization requirements have become increasingly burdensome.
  • It may even result in a denial or a non-renewal of coverage.
  • HB 712 will not place an undue burden on health plans.
  • The Affordable Care Act has a list of 10 essential health benefits.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 15th, 2025

Public Education

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  • Three, 128 districts left TRS Active Care because they thought they would be able to find better health
  • So any of the 128 districts, we put no money. towards their health care.
  • And my mental health affected my physical health as well.
  • Buckley asked me if I I was better now, after my mental health struggles.
  • It includes looking at the mental health and behavioral health needs of the children. crisis intervention
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 15th, 2025

Public Education

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  • I hold a degree in science in nursing and have 27 years of experience in trauma, home health, and school-based
  • These numbers underscore a stark reality: families in our community often lack access to basic health
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/26

State Government Finance and Policy

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  • cost-effective health efficient, cost-effective health insurance<00:41:36.480> system.
  • School boards support affordable, high-quality health coverage for our employees.
  • support affordable highquality health support affordable highquality health coverage<00:48:43.839
  • <00:48:45.280> We coverage for our employees. We coverage for our employees.
  • health care and we get worse outcomes. health care and we get worse outcomes.
Bills: HF3422, HF3461, HF2904
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Finance May 18th, 2026

Finance

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  • The Department of Health, you have Christine Mathrin with Magellan Health is in support.
  • And Catherine Levinis with Ochsner Health is in support. ...with Magellan Health is in support.
  • Health plans will still be able to use all the tools that they have at their disposal today to get health
  • Say health plans, I mean OGB group health plans are the ones who are suffering.
  • The contracts with the health plans?
KY
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  • to health insurance.
  • certain coverages to health insurance. certain coverages to health insurance.
  • um mental health parody act of 2008. um mental health parody act of 2008.
  • , the BMI and mental health coverage, which is an underlying main issue, I believe, is basically covered
  • coverage that the BMI and mental health coverage that the BMI and mental health which<01:25:14.880
Summary: The Interim Joint Committee on Banking and Insurance met for its first interim meeting, established a quorum, approved routine opening items, and welcomed a new committee assistant and a legislative intern. The committee first heard a Kentucky Bankers Association presentation from Tim Shank and John Cooper focused on the state’s housing shortage, which they described as affecting all 120 counties and especially low- and moderate-income and workforce housing. They urged support for a proposed $20 million banker-backed revolving fund, paired with tax credits, to finance new housing construction; they said the program would be flexible, could support alternatives such as manufactured housing, and would use below-market loans with tax credits vesting over five years only after units are completed. They also asked for extension of the historical tax credit carryforward from five to seven years and for continued support of new market tax credits, arguing that supply-chain delays make the longer period necessary for historic rehabilitation projects. The bankers also raised concerns about credit unions, arguing that because credit unions do not pay the same taxes as banks, they should not be allowed to acquire healthy state-chartered banks or hold state and local deposits. They cited the recent purchase of First State Bank of Middlesborough as an example, saying the transaction would reduce state, county, and city tax revenue and weaken local tax bases. In response to committee questions, the presenters said local regulations, zoning, parking, sidewalk, and utility easement issues can significantly delay housing projects, and they emphasized that state policy and infrastructure support are needed to help address affordability and development barriers. The committee then shifted to a Department of Insurance presentation by Commissioner Sharon Clark on how to read KRS 6.948 health mandate and federal cost defrayal impact statements. Clark explained that the mandate statements were created in 1998 so legislators would have actuarial estimates of how proposed health insurance mandates would affect administrative costs, premiums, and total costs, and she noted that later legislation added federal cost-defrayal analysis. She also reviewed the background of the Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits framework and said the department’s statements are intended to help lawmakers make informed decisions on proposed health coverage mandates. No votes or formal actions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Health and Human Services Feb 16th, 2026 at 09:04 am

House Health & Human Services

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  • from obtaining the needed Medicare supplemental coverage.
  • We've made a lot of investments in behavioral health and mental health.
  • provide coverage across New Mexico.
  • The Health...
  • level of health care for all New Mexico residents.
Bills: SB101, SB21, HM52, HB132, SB14, SB20