Medicaid block grants would allow states not to cover some drugs

Modern Healthcare

Medicaid block grant guidance unveiled on Thursday would allow states to exclude some prescription drugs from their formularies, though the CMS in 2018 denied Massachusetts’ request to employ a similar strategy.

Edwin Park, a research professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, said he views the potential optional expansion population as another eligibility category under Medicaid, not as a fundamentally different population.

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