{"id":15006,"date":"2016-03-13T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/senate-passes-bill-to-curb-contain-medicaid-costs\/"},"modified":"2016-03-13T08:03:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T15:03:02","slug":"senate-passes-bill-to-curb-contain-medicaid-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/senate-passes-bill-to-curb-contain-medicaid-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes bill to curb, contain Medicaid costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> Legislation aimed at curbing and containing costs within the state Medicaid program has passed the Alaska Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s 19-0 vote sends the bill to the House.<\/p>\n<p>Medicaid is a major state cost and one of the areas lawmakers have targeted for reform as the state grapples with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit. The bill\u2019s sponsor, Sen. Pete Kelly, says the measure goes after the system, not the recipient.<\/p>\n<p>SB 74 includes provisions to ferret out fraud and abuse. Among other things, it also calls for establishing a case management system to reduce unnecessary use of emergency and specialty care services and calls for reducing travel costs by requiring recipients receive care in their communities, if possible.<\/p>\n<p>The state health department estimates the bill will save the agency $31.4 million next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 Legislation aimed at curbing and containing costs within the state Medicaid program has passed the Alaska Senate. Friday\u2019s 19-0 vote sends the bill to the House. Medicaid is a major state cost and one of the areas lawmakers have targeted for reform as the state grapples with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit. The bill\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}