Analysis: Pandemic-era Medicaid rules are central to year-end health negotiations on Capitol Hill
AdvertisementThe funding bump was designed to last until the end of the quarter in which the Biden administration gets rid of the public health emergency for the coronavirus. Though federal health officials have continued to renew the emergency declaration, state Medicaid officials are on edge about when it could end and are seeking some certainty.
Meanwhile, Medicaid advocates are fretting that millions of people who lose their health insurance may not know that they could qualify for private plans.Republicans have been seeking to unwind the provision that incentives states to avoid touching their Medicaid rolls.
Several people pointed to potential guardrails around states’ processes for reevaluating who’s still eligible for Medicaid, whichThis could perhaps consist of data reporting requirements or limits on how many changes a state can process per month, though again this is all very fluid. as well as a requirement that children can’t beRepublican staff confirmed that they would consider guardrail offers in negotiations over how quickly re-evaluations over Medicaid coverage can begin.
“The things that we are most eager for is certainty around what this is all going to look like and getting away from the guessing game around the future of the public health emergency, and having to continually revise operational plans, revise budgeting assumptions, revise messaging and communications,”
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