Idaho Bills

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Behavioral Health Services Division for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

ThisappropriationtotheDepartmentofHealthandWelfareprovidesenhancementstotheFY2025maintenance budget that includes additional appropriation for Federal Data Services Hub Interface, Child Care Subsidies, and the additional 2% CEC. This bill also includes FY 2024 supplemental appropriations that adjusts the appropriation for a no cost impact for the eligibility verification systems used by the department and funding for LIHEAP Utility Assistance.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Public Health Services Division provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include a public health infrastructure grant; laboratory operating costs; laboratory information management modernization; a state loan repayment; a Maternal, Infant, and Early Child Home Visiting (MIECHV) program formula grant increase; data modernization; vital records modernization; Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) modernization; vital statistics modernization; funding for additional WIC staff; data processing modernization; immunization awards to public health districts and tribes; adult vaccine provider support; childhood lead poisoning prevention; Alzheimer's and dementia grants; rural physician loan repayment; disease investigation and control; data analytics personnel funding; HIV Care program receipt authority; Ryan White Part B supplemental grant funding; and the additional 2% CEC. In addition, this bill moves ongoing funding to onetime for multiple programs; removes funding for COVID grantfunding; andremovesfundingforsexeducationgrants. ThisbillalsoprovidesadjustmentstotheFY2024 appropriation for Physical Health Services and Laboratory Services. Looking at Table 2 below, adjustments include funding for the HIV Care Program drug rebates, a onetime transfer of personnel costs to operating expenditures, and a dedicated fund adjustment for the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Medicaid provides a $277,954,700 reduction to the FY 2024 budget, of which $92,807,600 is from the General Fund. Contributing factors to the lower-than-anticipated costs include the end of the public health emergency, and drops in utilization and enrollment. This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Medicaid provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include nondiscretionary adjustments, new staff division-wide, providerrateadjustments, intermediatecarefacilityrateadjustments, anMMISvendorincrease, funding for personal care services case management, MMIS procurement year 2, an Idaho Millennium Income Fund offset for claims payments, and the additional 2% CEC. Additionally, this bill provides reappropriation authority. This bill also provides adjustments to the FY 2024 appropriation for the Division of Medicaid. Looking at Table 2 below, adjustments include a onetime forecasted recission, an ongoing reduction related to the end of an electronic records incentive program, and adjustments to the Hospital Assessment Fund. Overall, the total FY 2025 appropriation for the Division of Medicaid represents 0.6% increase over the FY 2024 Original Appropriation.