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Relating to the hearing aids and audiologic services funding program, and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by the House Appropriations (successor To Hf 2188) Committee
Topics:State budgetHealth care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 26, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 9, 2022
- Done: House committeeFebruary 17, 2022
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Iowa Department of Public Health must now manage the hearing aids and audio services program itself instead of hiring an outside company to do it. This change includes handling applications, deciding who is eligible, and paying providers. Additionally, any leftover money meant for children's hearing services can be carried over to the next year instead of being lost.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the hearing aids and audio logic services funding program. The bill is divided into two divisions. The first division of the bill prohibits the Iowa department of public health (department) from entering into a contract with a third party to administer the hearing aids and audiologic services funding program (program). The department shall adopt rules to administer the program within the department, including but not limited to the administration of the application process, the determination of applicants’ eligibility, the enrollment of eligible applicants into the program, the maintenance of the program waitlist, and the reimbursement of providers. The second division of the bill provides that the $156,000 appropriated for fiscal year 2021-2022 to be used to provide audiological services and hearing aids for children that remains unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available until the close of the succeeding fiscal year. The amount of money that does not revert shall be reported annually by the department to the general assembly. This division of the bill takes effect upon enactment.
Lobbying
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 399 Relating to health insurance coverage for hearing aids for covered persons age eighteen an…88th General Assembly · In committee · very similarCleared committee
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