Utah Medicaid

The imposition of spending limits for individual Medicaid recipients has been discussed in Washington policy circles for years and was offered in the White House’s recent FY 2020 budget proposal.  While deliberations on such a proposal have never advanced in a meaningful way, the state of Utah is doing more than talking about such an approach:  it has petitioned the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for a Medicaid waiver that would enable it to introduce such a system in its state Medicaid program. Under the state’s proposed Medicaid waiver, Utah asks the federal government to limit its own Medicaid [...]