State-option work requirements.

A cap on federal spending.

New flexibility for states to address eligibility, benefits, and provider payments.

Rolling back the Affordable Care Act’s eligibility expansion.

Medicaid is under the policy microscope in Washington these days in ways it has not been for many years as the new administration continues to work to put its stamp on the federal government’s major program to provide health care to low-income Americans.

These and other possible changes are of great interest to the nation’s private safety-net hospitals because these hospitals care for so many more Medicaid and low-income patients than the typical community hospital.

What are policy-makers considering and what are the potential implications of their efforts?  Learn more in the new Health Affairs blog article “Medicaid Program Under Siege,” which can be found here.