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Lawmakers consider hospital assessment to draw federal Medicaid dollars; authors say program would stabilize hospital finances
Summary
A bipartisan proposal would assess hospitals to draw federal Medicaid matching funds and redistribute them as directed payments to hospitals. Proponents said the mechanism is used in other states and could capture roughly $1 billion in federal funds; DHS and health plans raised implementation and timing concerns. The committee laid the bill over.
The Health Finance and Policy Committee on Wednesday heard detailed testimony on House File 2,057, a bill to create a hospital assessment and directed‑payment program intended to draw additional federal Medicaid matching dollars to shore up underfunded hospital reimbursements.
Representative Scott Biermann and Representative Nadeau co‑authored the bill and described it as a broad, state‑level mechanism that would assess hospitals on net inpatient and outpatient revenue and use the assessments to claim federal match that would be returned to hospitals through a managed‑care directed payment mechanism. Proponents said the program would not require state general‑fund dollars because hospitals would provide the…
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