JOINT INFORMATIONAL MEETING
Senate Health & Human Services AND Senate Transportation Committees
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 9:30 a.m
North Office Building, Hearing Room #1
Topic: Medical Assistance Transportation Program
“Challenges and Opportunities for Delivering
Medical Assistance Transportation in Pennsylvania”
Opening Remarks (9:30 a.m.-9:35 a.m.):
- Senator Michele Brooks, Chair, Senate Health and Human Services Committee
- Senator Art Haywood, Democratic Chair, Senate Health and Human Services Committee
- Senator Kim Ward, Chair, Senate Transportation Committee
- Senator John Sabatina, Democratic Chair, Senate Transportation Committee
Testifiers* (9:35 a.m.-10:00 a.m.):
- Rebecca May-Cole, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Association of Area Agencies on Aging
- Jeffrey Iseman, Public Policy and Outreach Coordinator; and, Mark Edwards, Cumberland County User of MATP and Persons With Disabilities (PWD) Shared Ride Program, Pennsylvania Statewide Independent Living Council
- Sally Kozak, Deputy Secretary for the Office of Medical Assistance Programs; Laurie Rock, Director, Medical Assistance Managed Care; and, Mara Perez, Director, Bureau of Fiscal Management, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services
- Jennie Granger, Deputy Secretary for Multimodal Transportation, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
- Timothy Geibel, General Manager, Crawford Area Transportation Authority and Venango County Transit; Alan Blahovec, Executive Director, Westmoreland County Transit Authority; and, Sue Kopystecki, Executive Director, TransNet (Suburban Transit Network, Inc.), Pennsylvania Public Transportation Association
Question-and-Answer Roundtable** (10:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.)
Closing Remarks (10:25 a.m.-10:30 a.m.)
*Each testifier will have approximately 5 minutes to briefly summarize their written testimony.
**The Chairs will moderate the question-and-answer roundtable with all of the testifiers.
Additional Testimony: