61^ST WYOMING LEGISLATURE

INTERIM COMMITTEE STUDIES

Standard Budget:     $45,000.00

Priority #: 1     Response to Federal Initiatives

The Committee's jurisdiction includes areas that require state response to federal legislative or regulatory initiatives, as well as areas that require state executive branch reports.  Significant areas include health care reform, Medicaid studies, health insurance exchanges, mental health parity and health care provider recruitment.  The Committee will monitor and respond as needed to federal initiatives and state agency reports.  The Committee will study Medicaid entitlements and programs in order to better understand the program, federally mandated changes and Medicaid options and alternatives.

Priority #: 2     Assignments From 2011 Legislation

The Committee is specifically assigned to follow up on significant new legislation involving governmental reorganization, including: Department of Employment/Workforce Services merger; Department of Health reorganization study; Insurance Commission interstate compacts; at-will state executive employees; long-term care choices.  The Committee will monitor these subjects and propose further implementing legislation as needed.

Priority #: 3     Cost Containment Efforts

The Committee will investigate cost containment efforts though all of the programs under its jurisdiction, , including: Medicaid oversight, fraud prevention and eligibility processes; Healthy Frontiers Program review; public health nursing funding; Eldercare; economic analysis of state institutions; and technology implementation in telemedicine/telehealth, electronic patient records and dissemination of health studies and resource information. [Modified by Management Council]

Priority #: 4     Oversight Hearings

 

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