S 585 116th Congress Senate Health Medicaid State and local finance

SAME Act of 2019

Introduced: February 27, 2019 Introduced by: Warner, Mark R. Democratic · Virginia See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Feb 27, 2019

Introduced in Senate

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States Achieve Medicaid Expansion Act of 2019 or the SAME Act of 2019

This bill provides the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to every state that expands Medicaid coverage for individuals who are newly eligible under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, regardless of when such expansion takes place.

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.

The bill applies retroactively.

What's happening now February 27, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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