The National Governors Association NGA released a statement yesterday calling on Congress to delay implementation of seven Medicaid rules scheduled to take effect Aug. 1. The Medicaid regulations represent a shift of “billions of dollars in federal costs to states,” says the statement, with a potential impact of “up to four times the Administration’s original five-year, $13 billion estimate.”
Asserting that the regulations were issued “without thoughtful dialogue between the states and federal partners,” the NGA maintains that the regulations do not offer clear guidance for compliance or reflect the unique aspects of individual state programs, and that “the issues raised by all of these regulations deserve more thoughtful, detailed and collaborative discussions” to best serve the states. Read the statement.
