Title: Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act of 2017
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to every state that expands Medicaid coverage for individuals who are newly eligible under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, regardless of when such expansion takes place.
Under current law, the enhanced FMAP is equivalent to 100% in 2014 through 2016, 95% in 2017, 94% in 2018, 93% in 2019, and 90% thereafter. The bill retains this enhanced FMAP, but bases it on a term of years rather than on specific dates.
The bill applies retroactively.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2688 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2688

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide the same level 
 of Federal matching assistance for every State that chooses to expand 
  Medicaid coverage to newly eligible individuals, regardless of when 
                      such expansion takes place.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2017

 Mr. Gene Green of Texas (for himself and Mr. Richmond) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide the same level 
 of Federal matching assistance for every State that chooses to expand 
  Medicaid coverage to newly eligible individuals, regardless of when 
                      such expansion takes place.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act 
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. INCREASED FMAP FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO NEWLY ELIGIBLE 
              INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1905(y)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1396d(y)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``2014, 2015, and 
        2016'' and inserting ``each of the first 3 consecutive 12-month 
        periods in which the State provides medical assistance to newly 
        eligible individuals'';
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``2017'' and inserting 
        ``the fourth consecutive 12-month period in which the State 
        provides medical assistance to newly eligible individuals'';
            (3) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``2018'' and inserting 
        ``the fifth consecutive 12-month period in which the State 
        provides medical assistance to newly eligible individuals'';
            (4) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``2019'' and inserting 
        ``the sixth consecutive 12-month period in which the State 
        provides medical assistance to newly eligible individuals''; 
        and
            (5) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``2020 and each year 
        thereafter'' and inserting ``the seventh consecutive 12-month 
        period in which the State provides medical assistance to newly 
        eligible individuals and each such period thereafter''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act.
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