Modern Healthcare interviewed Manatt's Deborah Bachrach, a partner in the firm's Healthcare practice, for an article on the bipartisan efforts being made to expand Medicaid to low-income adults.
Modern Healthcare reports that efforts continue in three states to expand Medicaid. The possibility of expansion is still alive in Alaska, Florida and Montana. But with time running out in the current legislative cycles in the three states, some observers predict those expansion efforts will fail this year.
Bachrach told the publication that under the ACA, it would take action by Congress to drop the federal match below 90% for the expansion population.
Read the article here.