The Bush administration has agreed to a moratorium on two of seven proposed Medicaid rules, which include limiting Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals and nursing homes run by state and local governments, so lawmakers can discuss and agree to changes. (Medical News Today)
As you may recall, the administration proposed to limit physician reimbursement rates and stopped the expansion of Medicaid programs like the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary Mike Leavitt, President Bush would veto any bill that places a moratorium on all seven rules.
“We’re trying to put a package together where the five would remain and we would extend [graduate medical education funding] and [intergovernmental transfers to public hospitals] for a period where we tried to find a solution…We would defer the implementation until August, and if we’re not able to do that, it would be deferred until March.”
