Idaho’s Medicaid Work Group Pushes Next Meeting Into November

Emilie Ritter Saunders / StateImpact

The governor's panel on Medicaid expansion met for the first time back in August.

The Department of Health and Welfare says it’s rescheduling it’s next Medicaid work group meeting on November 9.

Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter created the panel to study whether Idaho should allow more low income Idahoans on the health care program.  Currently, nearly 240,000 Idahoans are on Medicaid.  An expansion would add up to 110,000 more people.

The department says it’s waiting on more data to be collected and that’s why its Oct. 23 meeting has been pushed back to Nov. 9.

That meeting will be at the State Capitol from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and will be streamed live online.