After the House passed its FY 2025 budget reconciliation bill the Senate took up its own bill, with the Senate Finance Committee proposing more than $800 billion in Medicaid cuts through a combination of reduced future Medicaid provider taxes, new limits on state directed payments made through Medicaid managed care plans, new Medicaid work requirements, more frequent redetermination of Medicaid eligibility, a shorter period of retroactive eligibility for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and more.
The Senate continues to debate these proposals, with some members believing they are necessary and appropriate and others arguing that they would have too great an impact on low-income Americans and the health care providers that serve them.
But what would that impact be? Learn more about the proposed Medicaid cuts and their potential effects from the following resources.
- “Medicaid cuts would squeeze provider pay, CBO says” (Modern Healthcare, password required)
- “Proposed Medicaid cuts, quantified” (Becker’s Hospital Review)
- “Information Concerning Medicaid-Related Provisions in Title IV of H.R. 1” (Congressional Budget Office)
- “A Closer Look at the Medicaid Work Requirement Provisions in the “Big Beautiful Bill” (KFF)
- “Senate GOP proposes steeper cuts to Medicaid funding in tax cut bill” (Stat, password required)
- “The Senate Wants Billions More in Medicaid Cuts, Pinching States and Infuriating Hospitals” (New York Times, password required)
- “Federal proposals threaten provider taxes, key source of Medicaid funding for states” (Fierce Healthcare)
- “Senate Republicans propose deeper Medicaid cuts in reconciliation bill” (Healthcare Dive)
- “Medicaid cuts would push struggling rural hospitals ‘over the edge’: report” (Healthcare Dive)
- “Medicaid Changes in House and Senate Reconciliation Bills Would Increase Costs for 1.3 Million Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries” (KFF)
- “Senate version of Trump agenda bill cuts more from Medicaid: GOP aides” (The Hill)
- “Hospitals stunned by Senate GOP’s Medicaid plan” (Politico)
- “Assessing Medicaid Coverage Losses Under House Reconciliation Bill” (Factcheck.org)
