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May 19, 2017      11:28 AM

Senate Finance debates actual cost of Medicaid to supplemental budget

LBB is pressed by West: “This is not the first time we’ve had this exercise…Historically, which numbers have been more accurate, LBB numbers or agency numbers?”

The actual validated up-to-date cost of Medicaid continues to be the ever-elusive unicorn of the Texas legislative session, a number many reference but few seem ready to verify.

Yesterday, Senate Finance subbed out the House supplemental budget bill for its own, explained in this infographic, and took a unanimous vote to move the bill forward, if only for the purposes of further budget negotiations. The Senate bill picks up about $1 billion in outstanding bills from the current session, not the least of which is Medicaid, at $794 million.

By Kimberly Reeves

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