Modern Healthcare

By: Virgil Dickson

HHS Secretary, Tom Price, mentioned that states must have less flexibility in regards to their Medicaid program. Therefore, the new American Health Care Act proposed by the House Republicans suggests an $880 billion reduction on Medicaid funds between 2017 and 2026.

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Joan Alker, a Medicaid expert at Georgetown University disagrees with that hypothesis. “In practical terms what does that mean? States could get new flexibility to limit enrollment,” Alker wrote in a blog post. “They could gain the ability to limit enrollment directly by imposing enrollment caps or rolling back eligibility; or indirectly by putting up barriers such as imposing work requirements or lockout periods, which reduce enrollment.”

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