SSB 1163: Relating to health care including a funding model for the rural health care system; the elimination of several health care-related award, grant, residency, and fellowship programs; establishment of a health care professional incentive program; Medicaid graduate medical education; the health facilities council; and the Iowa health information network, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions

What it does

This bill relates to health care including a funding model for Iowa’s rural health system; health care-related award, grant, residency, and fellowship programs; establishment of a health care incentive program; Medicaid graduate medical education; the health facilities council; and the Iowa health information network. DIVISION I. _____ and human services a request for approval for a health care hub-and-spoke partnership funding model for the purpose of improving Iowa’s rural health system. The division shall take effect upon enactment.

Senate subcommittee · named February 24, 2025

• Sen. Mike Klimesh (R) · mike.klimesh@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D) · sarah.trone.garriott@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 37 for, 0 against

For: Blank Childrens Hospital; Broadlawns Medical Center; Central Iowa Physicians; Classroom Clinic; Delta Dental of Iowa; Des Moines University; Elevance Health, and its Affiliates dba Anthem, Inc.; Governor's Office; Greater Des Moines Partnership; Greater Iowa City, Inc.; Iowa Academy of Family Physicians; Iowa Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives; and 25 more

In plain words

1. February 19, 2025Filed in the Senate and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
2. February 24, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Klimesh, Costello and Trone Garriott
3. February 25, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes
4. March 5, 2025Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 575