02/17/2026
🚨 URGENT: Protect PT/OT/SLP Services in Idaho Medicaid 🚨
Idaho is considering major Medicaid cuts for FY 2027 — including the potential elimination of PT, OT, and Speech Therapy services.
This comes after:
• The 4% reimbursement cut (with more reductions planned)
• Ongoing prior authorization delays
• A proposed move to managed care
Managed care is not right for Idaho.
Prior auth delays are already harming families.
Further cuts could eliminate access altogether.
If we are truly pro-life, that commitment must extend beyond birth.
Children with disabilities depend on therapy to walk, communicate, eat safely, learn, and live with dignity. Cutting these services abandons vulnerable families and increases long-term state costs.
Now is the time to speak up.
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📧 EMAIL HEALTH & WELFARE COMMITTEE
JVanderWoude@house.idaho.gov
MErickson@house.idaho.gov
DHealey@house.idaho.gov
JRedman@house.idaho.gov
JoshWheeler@house.idaho.gov
RBeiswenger@house.idaho.gov
TBurgoyne@house.idaho.gov
LCayler@house.idaho.gov
BFuhriman@house.idaho.gov
DLeavitt@house.idaho.gov
LMcCann@house.idaho.gov
FThompson@house.idaho.gov
DHall@house.idaho.gov
STanner@house.idaho.gov
IRubel@house.idaho.gov
MEgbert@house.idaho.gov
JVanOrden@senate.idaho.gov
CBjerke@senate.idaho.gov
GZuiderveld@senate.idaho.gov
MWintrow@senate.idaho.gov
JKeyser@senate.idaho.gov
CBlaylock@senate.idaho.gov
BShippy@senate.idaho.gov
BLenney@senate.idaho.gov
MHarris@senate.idaho.gov
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📧 EMAIL JFAC (Budget Committee)
SGrow@senate.idaho.gov
JWoodward@senate.idaho.gov
KCook@senate.idaho.gov
CBjerke@senate.idaho.gov
Phil.Hart@senate.idaho.gov
CCarlson@senate.idaho.gov
GZuiderveld@senate.idaho.gov
CGalloway@senate.idaho.gov
JWardEngelking@senate.idaho.gov
MWintrow@senate.idaho.gov
JTanner@house.idaho.gov
SMiller@house.idaho.gov
RFurniss@house.idaho.gov
JPetzke@house.idaho.gov
DManwaring@house.idaho.gov
BMitchell@house.idaho.gov
EPrice@house.idaho.gov
CBruce@house.idaho.gov
KHarris@house.idaho.gov
BGreen@house.idaho.gov
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💛 What to say:
“Please protect PT, OT, and speech therapy services in Medicaid. Reconsider the 4% cuts, fix prior authorization delays, and do not move Idaho to managed care. Therapy services must not be eliminated in FY 2027.”
Please email.
Please call.
Please share.
Protect children. Protect therapy. Protect Idaho families. 💛
