Finance & Budgeting
The Senate July 1, and the House July 2, passed a budget reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), H.R. 1, a sweeping package that enacts many of President Trump’s legislative priorities on taxes, border security, energy and deficit reduction. The bill includes significant policy…
Despite months of clearly demonstrating the implications that these Medicaid proposals will have on the patients and communities we serve, especially the most vulnerable populations, Congress has enacted cuts of nearly a trillion dollars to the Medicaid program.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has withdrawn his amendment to the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill. This withdrawal comes after a vigorous advocacy campaign by the AHA, with the great assistance of our members, to urge senators to vote no on the amendment.
The magnitude of nearly a trillion-dollar reduction to the Medicaid program cannot be characterized solely as waste, fraud and abuse. The real-life consequences of these reductions will result in irreparable harm to access to care for all Americans and undermine the ability of hospitals and health…
Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., is expected to introduce an amendment to the Senate budget reconciliation bill during the vote-a-rama in the coming hours. The amendment would dramatically impact expansion states.
The table below summarizes the 10-year impact on federal Medicaid hospital spending if the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) were reduced to the traditional level for Medicaid expansion enrollees due to program churn.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimated national health spending grew 8.2% in 2024 and expects a 7.1% increase in 2025, the agency reported June 25 in Health Affairs.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health for a hearing to testify on the HHS fiscal year 2026 budget proposal, which requests $94.7 billion.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee today released its text for the budget reconciliation bill. The text includes one health care provision, which would fund cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers in Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
The Trump administration May 30 released supplemental documents on its fiscal year 2026 discretionary budget request to Congress.