{"id":29067,"date":"2016-03-29T23:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/committee-wants-publics-thoughts-on-medicaid-reform\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:03:36","slug":"committee-wants-publics-thoughts-on-medicaid-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/committee-wants-publics-thoughts-on-medicaid-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee wants public&#8217;s thoughts on Medicaid reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska House Finance Committee will hear public testimony on Senate Bill 74, the Medicaid reform bill, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau residents can give their thoughts in person in room 519 of the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>If you cannot attend in person, call 465-4648 at the appropriate time to offer your thoughts by phone.<\/p>\n<p>SB 74 includes provisions to reduce fraud and waste in the newly expanded state Medicaid program. The state department of health has estimated the bill will save Alaska about $31.4 million next year. Those savings are expected to rise in future years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska House Finance Committee will hear public testimony on Senate Bill 74, the Medicaid reform bill, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight. Juneau residents can give their thoughts in person in room 519 of the Capitol. If you cannot attend in person, call 465-4648 at the appropriate time to offer your thoughts by [&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-29067","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\/29067","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=29067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29067"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}