Medicaid

Please contact your representatives today and urge them to eliminate punitive Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) and uncompensated care cuts from the Build Back Better Act (H.R.5376). In the version of the bill that was released Oct. 28, states that have yet to expand their Medicaid…
he Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced revised federal funding methodologies for the Basic Health Program under the American Rescue Plan Act.
As organizations representing hospitals and health systems from across the country, we are writing to ask you to remove the reductions to the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) program and uncompensated care pools from H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better (BBB) Act.
Aaron Wesolowski, vice president for policy research, analytics and strategy at the AHA, takes issue with a recent white paper from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy on a Medicaid coverage provision in the draft Build Back Better Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched for state Medicaid agencies and stakeholders on Medicaid.gov a webpage dedicated to advancing transparency and innovation for home and community-based services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued guidance on the American Rescue Plan Act requirement for state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance programs to cover certain COVID-19-related treatments without cost-sharing effective March 11, 2021.
About 275,000 low-income adults are now eligible for coverage under Medicaid expansion in Missouri, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
The House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees approved their legislative recommendations for the Build Back Better Act, which will be considered under budget reconciliation.