Territories Await BBB Passage To Fix Long-Term Medicaid Funding Issues

The short-term continuing resolution passed by Congress Thursday (Dec. 2) would once again save territories’ Medicaid programs by extending the bump in federal matching funds through mid-February -- by which point lawmakers plan to have passed the Build Back Better plan and its provision that would permanently increase what experts currently consider woefully inadequate federal funding for the territories. Lawmakers have enacted several temporary fixes over the years to increase federal Medicaid funding for territories. Territories have capped federal money...