Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-584
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33]
Introduced: 2019-01-16
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid

State and local finance
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act of </strong><b>2019</b></p> <p>This bill provides the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to every state that expands Medicaid&nbsp;coverage for&nbsp;individuals who are newly eligible under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, regardless of when&nbsp;such expansion takes place. </p> <p>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.</p> <p>The bill applies retroactively.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 584 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 16, 2019 Mr. Veasey (for himself, Ms. Sewell of Alabama , Mr. Cohen , Mr. Hastings , Mr. Pocan , Mr. Allred , Ms. Johnson of Texas , Mr. Thompson of Mississippi , Ms. Lee of California , Mr. Espaillat , Mr. Serrano , Mr. Carson of Indiana , Ms. Wilson of Florida , Ms. Hill of California , Ms. Wild , and Ms. Pingree ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act of 2019 . 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.