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Senate Health & Welfare flags FMAP shortfall, Medicaid waiver risks and pressure to spend rural health grant
Summary
At an April 3 Senate Health & Welfare briefing, Joint Fiscal Office staff told senators that an FMAP rate change created roughly a $13.6 million Medicaid funding gap, that Medicaid’s waiver negotiations and provider-stabilization needs pose budget risks, and that a new Rural Health Transformation grant requires rapid deployment to avoid returning funds.
Senate Health & Welfare spent most of its April 3 meeting reviewing the Administration for Human Services (AHS) budget and hearing a high-level overview from Joint Fiscal Office staff. Committee members were urged to prioritize prevention, primary care, and substance-use disorder and recovery programs as they consider amendments.
Joint Fiscal Office analysts told the committee that a recent federal FMAP (federal medical assistance percentage) rate change reduced federal matching dollars and produced an estimated $13.6 million shortfall that has been…
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