What Happens When the Match Ends? States Brace for Impact as CMS Shifts Medicaid Funding Rules

What Happens When the Match Ends? States Brace for Impact as CMS Shifts Medicaid Funding Rules

When a federal agency changes the way money flows, the effects aren’t always immediate — but they’re often profound. In a move quietly announced and now rippling across the healthcare policy world, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to end the federal matching for certain Medicaid funding requests submitted by states. What may sound like a bureaucratic adjustment is, in reality, a pivotal shift in how the United States fina…