MACPAC Monitors States' Actions On Medicaid Primary Care Bump

Congressional Medicaid advisers still aren't convinced that lawmakers should extend the ACA's newly expired Medicaid primary care pay bump, with some commissioners suggesting at a meeting late last week (Jan. 22) that it might make sense to wait and see what transpires with the 14 states that have chosen to continue the pay increase on their own. The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission's deliberations come as primary care physicians, increasingly worried that Congress won't revive the ACA measure,...