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Read. Follow. Verify.Arizona allocates $60 million to raise Medicaid behavioral health reimbursement rates by 10 percent
Last action · February 11, 2026: DPSponsor: T.J. Shope
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What This Bill Proposed
Arizona appropriates $60 million from the state general fund for 2026-2027 to provide a 10% increase for inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services provided to Medicaid recipients.
Medicaid-contracted health plans must pass the full 10% rate increase directly to behavioral health providers without offsetting or absorbing it into existing negotiated rates.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
behavioral health providers
Inpatient and outpatient behavioral health providers receive a 10 percent reimbursement rate increase for Medicaid services.
contracted medicaid health plans
Contracted health plans must pass the full reimbursement rate increase through to providers and are barred from offsetting or absorbing the funds.
Key Facts
- Appropriates $60,000,000 from the state general fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.
- Funds a 10 percent reimbursement rate increase for inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services provided to Medicaid providers.
- Rate increases are in addition to any existing or previously negotiated reimbursement rates.
- Contracted Medicaid health plans are prohibited from offsetting, supplanting, or absorbing the rate increase by relying on existing negotiated rates.
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- Reimbursement rate increases may not exceed applicable Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services upper payment limits.
- Appropriated monies must be used solely for rate increases and cannot be reallocated or used for administrative costs or other service categories.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in Senate committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Feb 11, 2026SenateCommitteeDP
- Jan 28, 2026SenateFloorSenate Second Reading
- Jan 27, 2026SenateIntroducedSenate First Reading
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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