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Medicaid Could Save from Most-Favored-Nation Drug Pricing, but the Amount is Uncertain
Read moreA group of researchers recently estimated that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed Generating Cost Reductions for US Medicaid... -
Improving Accountability in Medicaid Medical Loss Ratios
Read moreManaged care organizations (MCOs) – private insurance plans that operate the program under contract from the state – enroll over three quarters of the... -
Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Read moreUpdated 6/11/26: On April 30, the House passed a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill, ending a partial shutdown that began on February... -
Intergovernmental Transfers (IGTs) Can Inflate Federal Medicaid Matching Funds
Read moreThe Medicaid program provides health insurance to roughly 70 million lower-income Americans and is jointly financed by states and the federal... -
States Exploit SDP Grandfathering, Driving Up Medicaid Costs
Read moreThe One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) included important reforms to limit states’ costly use of State Directed Payments (SDPs) in the Medicaid... -
Break Glass: A Plan for the Next Economic Shock
Read moreThe U.S. has never experienced an economic shock as indebted as we are today. Recessions and other economic shocks are inevitable. Although the timing... -
CBO Projects High Federal Health Program Costs
Read moreFederal health programs will cost over $26 trillion through 2036, under the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline, making health care the largest... -
CMS Final Rule Closes Medicaid Loophole
Read moreThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a Medicaid rule, last week, which closes an especially egregious loophole that allowed... -
SDPs Run Amuck - The Case of Medical Debt Forgiveness as a Pretext for High Payments
Read moreMedicaid provides health insurance to nearly 71 million people, and will cost the federal government over $650 billion this year – nearly double what... -
What's In the One Big Beautiful Bill Act?
Read moreNote: This blog was updated on 8/4/25 to reflect CBO's newly-released estimates of the permanent cost of certain expiring tax provisions in OBBBA. The... -
2025 Reconciliation Resources
Read moreThe 119th Congress is expected to use the reconciliation process to pass legislation with a significant fiscal impact, such as extending the expiring... -
CMS Rule Would Close Medicaid Loophole
Read moreThe Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a rule to limit some of the most egregious provider taxes used by states to...