Legislator

Carine Werner

State Senator, LD-4 (R) · LD4 · Paradise Valley, Arcadia & central Scottsdale · Health & Human Services
Mandate — what they are responsible for Chair, Senate Health & Human Services.

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Healthcare-industry campaign money

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Not yet in OpenSecrets’ industry-coded dataset (seated Jan 2025; the coded state data currently runs through the 2024 cycle). — Health sector (all coded health industries)
Sourcehttps://www.opensecrets.org/officeholders/list?id=AZ&office=L

Bills & key votes on healthcare
SB1611 — American Indian Health Program reform Prime sponsor: Sponsored · 2026
Restructures AIHP administration to fix documented failures in reporting, provider payments, and complaint due-process.
Sourcehttps://www.azsenaterepublicans.gov/press-releases/arizona-senator-werner-takes-action-to-fix-failures-in-american-indian
SB1116 — Behavioral-health denials — clinician review Prime sponsor: Sponsored · 2026
Requires qualified clinician review before a behavioral-health treatment claim can be denied.
Sourcehttps://azfreenews.com/2026/03/arizona-senate-holds-oversight-hearing-into-arizona-medicaid-system-breakdowns/
SB1114 — Patient-brokering investigations funding Prime sponsor: Sponsored · 2026
Appropriates $1M to investigate behavioral-health patient-brokering schemes.
Sourcehttps://azfreenews.com/2026/03/arizona-senate-holds-oversight-hearing-into-arizona-medicaid-system-breakdowns/
SB1132 — AHCCCS — continuous glucose monitors Prime sponsor: Sponsored · 2026
Requires AHCCCS contractors to cover continuous glucose monitors (access).
Sourcehttps://www.azleg.gov/
B+ Our accountability grade
accountability & access to care — how we grade

Grade: B+. The committee’s standout on accountability: as chair she led 2026 oversight hearings into AHCCCS’s failures and sponsored a reform package — restructuring the American Indian Health Program (SB1611), requiring qualified clinician review before behavioral-health denials (SB1116), and funding patient-brokering investigations (SB1114) — plus access measures like glucose-monitor coverage. A 72-hour facility “cure period” (SB1233) is a mild industry-relief note in an otherwise oversight-focused record. No health-sector money identified. Graded on sponsorship; roll-call votes weren’t available.


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