STAT+: Senate Republicans debate Medicaid options as hospitals move to shape legislation
The Senate returns next week with critical choices on Medicaid policies that could cost hospitals billions of dollars and lead to millions losing coverage.
WASHINGTON — The Senate returns next week with critical choices on Medicaid policies that could cost hospitals billions of dollars and lead to millions losing coverage. Hospitals are scrambling to control the damage.
Last month, the House passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill, which would help pay for President Trump’s tax cuts with reductions in federal spending on Medicaid. Last week, the Senate Finance Committee unveiled its version, which includes steeper Medicaid cuts.
Both chambers’ bills include work requirements for people enrolled in Medicaid, with more frequent eligibility verifications, and both, to varying degrees, limit tactics that states use to increase federal funding for hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care providers.
