STAT+: Feds greenlight $9 billion in supplemental Medicaid funds as GOP weighs new limits
States are securing billions in extra Medicaid funding before Congress caps future deals.
Hospitals, physician groups, and nursing homes across 15 states will receive billions of dollars in extra Medicaid funding this year thanks to federal health care officials signing off on new agreements.
In almost all of the new agreements, states will pay health care providers average commercial prices to treat Medicaid patients — a boon for providers that often decry Medicaid as one of their worst-paying insurers.
The influx of recently approved Medicaid funds, known as state directed payment arrangements, highlights how the industry and state leaders of all political stripes have tapped a lucrative well within Medicaid. And the race is on to get more agreements across the finish line before Congress or the White House intervenes.
