A sweeping amendment (A13) consolidating provider-enrollment recodification, sanctions, billing-error definitions and program-integrity tools was debated at length; the committee adopted select lines (including clarifying that billing errors are not automatically fraud) but members sharply contested nursing-home rate and prepayment provisions and a proposed termination-for-fraud amendment failed.

The Senate Finance Committee heard SB 2431, a Health Facilities Commission cleanup bill that includes extending the deadline for required nursing‑home inspections to Dec. 31, 2028, and HFC representative Katie Thomas said the agency is requesting a one‑time $1.8 million budget item to hire contractors and reduce the backlog by an estimated 25–50%.