tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 6

Medicaid: Leavitt Dodges Questions On Medicaid Caps

Pressure from Congressional leaders turns up few hints about administration's plansWill the Bush administration again seek to cap a big chunk of federal Medicaid expenditures? And how does Michael Leavitt, the president's nominee to succeed Tommy Thompson as Secretary of Health and Human Services, feel about such caps?During lengthy appearances by Leavitt before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Jan. 18 and the Senate Finance Committee on Jan. 19, Democrats and some Republicans sought to get Leavitt to say he opposed Medicaid caps, as he did when he was governor of Utah. However, Leavitt, who...

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