Blog: Brookings paper misses the point on Medicaid DSH cuts included in BBBA

Aaron Wesolowski, vice president for policy research, analytics and strategy at the AHA, takes issue with a recent white paper from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy on a Medicaid coverage provision in the draft Build Back Better Act. “Its conclusion — that hospitals would see a financial 'windfall' — is flawed on several levels,” he writes. “To draw such a bold and flip conclusion about a massively complicated matrix of coverage and payment using strung-together data and faulty assumptions is irresponsible.”