Change Around the Block?

Berlin, J.; Berlin, J

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Change Around the Block?

Berlin, J.

Texas Medicine 113(4): 20-27

2017

ISSN/ISBN: 0040-4470

PMID: 28402580

Document Number: 691480

Proponents of a block grant or per-capita cap trumpet them as vehicles for the federal government to give the states a capped amount of funding for Medicaid that legislatures would effectively distribute how they see fit. Questions abound as to what capped Medicaid funding would look like, and what effect it would have on the current Medicaid-eligible population, covered services, and physician payments.