Medicaid: COULD BUSH PROPOSE PER CAPITA CAP FOR MEDICAID?
The Bush administration continues urging states to accept its capped-funding plan for Medicaid, but details of the proposal still seem to be in flux, judging from comments made by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Tom Scully at an Oct. 8 hearing.
In January, the administration unveiled a voluntary ten-year program in which states could get additional federal funds to provide Medicaid-optional benefits and to cover optional populations over the next few years - to tide them over current tough economic times - along with greatly expanded flexibility to design their Medicaid programs. In exchange, participating states would...
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