Lexology February 7, 2018
Introduction
Medicaid has entered a period of volatile change, unprecedented in its 51-year history.
With 74 million members nationwide,1 Medicaid provides health coverage to more than one in four Americans, ensuring access to healthcare not only for children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with disabilities, but also for an increasing number of low-income working adults. 2017 saw repeated attempts to fundamentally
2017 saw repeated attempts to fundamentally restructure the Medicaid program, and although Congress is likely to turn its attention to other priorities in 2018, federal legislative efforts to revamp Medicaid remain in play. Short of congressional action, vigorous efforts by federal officials to use administrative authority to reshape the program is a certainty. And perhaps more than ever...