MACPAC Watching Lessons Learned From COVID-19 Response In Medicaid

Inside Health Policy

The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission indicated Thursday (April 2) that it will closely monitor lessons learned in Medicaid after the coronavirus pandemic is over, including how Medicaid expansion states fared over non-expansion states.

Commissioner Tricia Brooks called on the commission to encourage CMS to back down on its proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation and said it was good news that CMS already pulled back another proposal to tighten Medicaid eligibility. On March 24, CMS withdrew from White House review its plan to issue a rule intended to tighten states’ Medicaid eligibility determinations. (Cirruzzo, 4/2)

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