Amends existing law to require certain federal waivers for continued medicaid expansion eligibility.

This legislation should create significant savings for the General Fund or other state funds. The legislation requires that several program integrity and cost-saving measures be implemented in Medicaid as a condition for the continued expansion of eligibility to able-bodied adults to continue. If those conditions are met and the expansion of eligibility to able-bodied adults continues, savings will likely exceed $163 million, as reducing improper payments in Medicaid to five percent would produce savings of $136 million and capping total enrollment of able-bodied expansion adults would produce savings of $27 million. If one or more of the conditions are not met, Medicaid expansion will be effectively repealed, which will produce savings of $109 million. Therefore, the range of possible savings is likely to be a net decrease in state spending of between $109 million and $163 million in state funds. The Medicaid Stabilization Fund will provide $3,000,000 for the department to apply to wa

SOP revised: 02/11/2025, 1:42 PM