Implementation of the Medicaid fiscal accountability regulation, opposed by NASH and many others since its introduction in November of 2019, would be delayed under a new bill proposed in the House of Representatives.

The MFAR Transparency Act (HR 7606), sponsored by representatives Roger Williams (R-TX) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), would delay implementation of the MFAR rule until the Government Accountability Office had an opportunity to assess its impact on individual states and identify the Medicaid transparency issues that need to be addressed.

Most important, the bill would prevent implementation of MFAR without specific authorization from Congress.

In a letter to the bill’s sponsors endorsing their proposal, NASH wrote that “The MFAR rule could jeopardize access to care for millions of Americans.”

NASH first expressed its opposition to the MFAR rule in a January letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.  Read its endorsement of the Williams-Johnson bill here.