Medicaid
The House of Representatives today voted to pass a modified version of the Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376), a roughly $1.75 trillion social spending package that includes many health care provisions. The bill, which is being considered under reconciliation procedures, is likely to undergo…
Twelve states filed a federal lawsuit in Louisiana challenging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ interim final rule requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for workers in most health care settings that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including hospitals and health systems…
Please contact your representatives today and urge them to make a number of changes to the Build Back Better Act (H.R.5376) to support patients and communities and the hospitals and health systems that care for them. Specifically, we are asking House lawmakers to eliminate punitive Medicaid…
Hospitals and health systems oppose Section 30608 of the Build Back Better Act, (H.R. 5376), which would impose a 12.5% cut in Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) to states that have not expanded Medicaid. Specifically, in the current version of the bill, the 12 states that failed to…
The Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program provides essential financial assistance to hospitals that care for our nation’s most vulnerable populations – children, the poor, the disabled and the elderly. However, the projected increase in coverage has not been fully realized due to…
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.