The Senate Finance Committee on Saturday (Dec. 11) unveiled a tweaked version of the Build Back Better plan that eliminates the House proposal to cut Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments in non-Medicaid expansion states and the House provision that would require minimum nursing home staffing, addressing concerns by hospitals and nursing homes. The Finance Committee’s […]

State Medicaid directors are getting anxious as the Biden administration has yet to announce whether it will extend the public health emergency beyond mid-January, making it difficult for them to prepare to restart the process of reviewing Medicaid beneficiary eligibility and train staff on a renewal process that hasn’t been done in nearly two years. […]

House Democrats passed President Biden’s sprawling economic package Friday after months of haggling over how expansive the legislation would be. But the changes are far from over. One possibility: Democrats are discussing making a cut to certain states’ hospital payments last just a few years instead of permanently,according to four people familiar with the situation. […]

Sens. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) sent a letter to congressional leadership, President Joe Biden and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra Tuesday (Aug. 3) asking them to close the Medicaid coverage gap in the reconciliation package expected later this year, as the Senate finishes up work on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and Democrats […]

The House Ways & Means Committee is looking at a proposal to close the so-called Medicaid gap by expanding premium tax subsidies so that those affected could buy an exchange plan, according to health subcommittee Chair Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), but he said the House Energy & Commerce Committee is drafting a plan to close the […]

Senate Democrats will release legislation as soon as Thursday to meet President Joe Biden‘s promise to expand in-home care for the elderly and disabled while boosting caregivers’ wages and unionizing opportunities, according to a draft bill obtained by Bloomberg Law. States would implement the proposal using a major influx of federal funding through Medicaid. The bill […]

(Inside Health Policy) President Joe Biden’s national COVID-19 response plan commits to expanding the social service safety net to provide for unmet basic needs exacerbated by the pandemic, which experts and advocates say will likely translate into broadening Medicaid to cover more social determinants of health down the road. But while Medicaid advocates and state […]