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Utah's rules for which medical providers can participate in Medicaid would change under this bill to exclude certain abortion providers. Specifically, a healthcare provider or its affiliate would be barred from qualifying as an eligible Medicaid provider if it performs "elective abortions" — a newly defined term covering abortions other than those needed to save the mother's life, prevent serious physical harm, address a uniformly lethal fetal condition, or in cases of rape or incest — and has annual revenue of $500 million or more; hospitals would be exempt from this restriction. The bill also formally defines "elective abortion" in state law and changes the department's Medicaid eligibility standards from discretionary ("may") to mandatory ("shall"). Because Medicaid providers often offer a range of services beyond abortion, such as cancer screenings, STI testing, or contraception, low-income Utahns enrolled in Medicaid could lose access to those other services if their provider is disqualified under this new revenue-and-abortion-based standard.