CMS Denies Utah Higher Match, Enrollment Cap; Mum On Per-Capita Cap

CMS on Friday (Aug. 16) officially denied Utah’s request for enhanced federal funding for a partial Medicaid expansion -- as well as Utah’s proposed enrollment caps policy, which the agency said essentially amounted to a partial expansion with the higher match -- but the agency has yet to decide whether it will approve the state’s request for per-capita caps. The agency sent two letters to Utah officials Friday -- one confirming that Utah’s 1115 waiver request was complete and another...