Healthcare Dive

By: Samantha Liss

Commissioners that help guide federal Medicaid policy raised concerns Thursday over why few Medicaid providers applied for federal relief funds amid the pandemic. Of the $175 billion allocated by Congress to help providers, about $15 billion has been allocated for Medicaid providers specifically. However, despite the billions in relief available, few Medicaid and CHIP providers applied for the money, or what is referred to as phase two funding. Only about 15% of those potentially eligible applied as of Aug. 30, according to staff members from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission… “It’s sort of disturbing that so little of that fund has been actually distributed,” Commissioner Tricia Brooks, senior fellow at Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, said.

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