Mr. Reid recently removed a six-month extension of the Medicaid enhancement from the jobs bill to improve its chances of passage, and the Senate passed the slimmed-down version of the jobs bill on Feb. 24 without the Medicaid extension.
The original extra funding, called the Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages, was part of the behemoth American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. It temporarily increases federal Medicaid payments by 6.2 percent through this coming December.
Read AHA News Now’s report on Medicaid payments.
