Modern Healthcare June 22, 2017
Mara Lee

The Better Care Reconciliation Act, like the American Health Care Act, radically revises Medicaid, but it is closer to the Affordable Care Act on how it approaches subsidies to buy individual insurance. Both the House and Senate bills eliminate taxes that paid the costs to cover more people through Medicaid and to subsidize individual plans.

Some of the big differences between current law, the House bill and the Senate bill are:

Medicaid expansion

Current​ law: Enhanced federal match for expansion population is 95% this year, 94% next year, 93% in 2019 and 90% in 2020 and beyond

AHCA: Enhanced match for expansion population maintained as described in ACA until 2020, when those who were...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Congress / White House, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, Medicaid, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Public Exchange, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Regulations
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