The House Ways and Means Committee wrapped up on Monday its agency budget hearings, and will now begin drafting a budget bill that will spell out where the $134 million in projected revenues available for appropriations for fiscal year 2015 will be spent.<\/p>\n
Committee chair Tony Sablan (Ind-Saipan) said most agencies will get the budget that Gov. Eloy S. Inos proposed in his submission to the Legislature, but there would be adjustments in certain critical programs such as medical referral.<\/p>\n
Sablan reminded agencies that giving more to one agency means cutting from other agencies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we\u2019re going to give anybody else more than what they have on the current budget proposal, we have to take it from somebody, so that\u2019s the critical thing. It\u2019s taking from somebody else to give to somebody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Ways and Means Committee\u2019s last agency hearing was on the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.\u2019s budget on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on Monday\u2019s budget hearing, with new CFO on board, they\u2019ve asked and we\u2019ve given them an opportunity to revise their projection, budget worksheets\u2026judging from the CEOs statement, I think they\u2019re comfortable with what their proposal is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The committee chairman said he\u2019s also glad that CHC will be implementing some procedural changes to beef up billing and collection.<\/p>\n
Sablan also noted that the Medical Referral Program is looking at bringing in more specialists to the CNMI to treat patients here rather than send them off island. <\/p>\n
Fiscal year 2015 is from Oct. 1, 2014 to Sept. 30, 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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