Montana State Legislature
Agency Oversight: DPHHS
Department of Public Health and Human Services
Agency Leadership
Charlie Brereton, Director
Appointed by Governor Gianforte in June 2022
Agency Website
Agency Overview
The Department of Public Health and Human Services mission statement is as follows:
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
Improving and protecting the health, well-being and self-reliance of all Montanans.
Materials related to the committee's agency oversight duties or presented to the committee by the Department of Public Health and Human Services as part of the oversight responsibilities are listed below by topic area or meeting date. Topics cover:
- agency legislation;
- the provider rate study conducted for the department during the interim; and
- the agency's applications for various Medicaid waivers.
Agency Legislation
State law and legislative rules require interim committees to review the legislation that state agencies plan to introduce during the next legislative session and allows the committees to authorize the early drafting and pre-introduction of those bills. The committee typically takes up that review at its final meeting of the interim.
Reports to the Legislature Related to Children, Families, Health, & Human Services
January 2024:
- Medicaid Change Reporting Report - December 2023
- Department response to CFHHS information request re: TANF Pathways & SNAP ET
November 2023:
- Department response to CFHHS information request re: Child Care RFI
- Department response to CFHHS information request re: Medicaid Audit Process RFI
- Summer EBT NOI 11-6-2023
September 2023:
- Department Updates
- Senior and Long Term Care Division Overview and Update
- Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Division Overview and Update
- Child and Family Services Division Overview and Update
- Human and Community Services Division Overview and Update
- Behavioral Health System for Future Generations Commission August 2023 Update
- Department responses to CFHHS Committee Information Requests
- Department response to CFHHS re: Issues with Background Checks in SLTC services
- Department response to CFHHS re: Number of strategies being used to minimize CMS termination
- Department response to CFHHS re: Money Follows the Person (MFP) Program Information
- Department response to CFHHS re: Number of children returned to parents at five-day EPS hearings
- Department response to CFHHS re: Medicaid disenrollment
- Medicaid Waiver: WASP Fertility Preservation Amendment
July 2023:
