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A Look at the Status of Medicaid
Expansion in Utah
A new KFF explainer details the status of Medicaid
expansion in Utah, where voters in November approved a ballot measure calling
for a traditional expansion under the Affordable Care Act. The state
legislature subsequently passed legislation to implement a more limited coverage
expansion that includes an enrollment cap and work requirements, and that
initially draws down federal dollars at the state’s existing 68 percent
matching rate.
Utah plans to seek approval from the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for enhanced matching funds under which
the federal government would pick up 90 percent of the cost of the state’s
limited coverage expansion, as it does under full ACA Medicaid expansions.
That is something that CMS has never before approved for any state. Utah
has a fallback plan if CMS denies its request, and if subsequent waiver
amendments are not approved by CMS, the state could end up implementing in
2020 the traditional ACA Medicaid expansion that voters approved at the
ballot box last year.
Filling the need for trusted information on
national health issues, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a
nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
A Look at the Status of Medicaid Expansion in Utah
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