GOP search for Medicaid savings could impact Evers budget plan to increase hospital assessment

Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda. Photo by David Wise, Sept. 2024.
Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda. Photo by David Wise, Sept. 2024.

A hospital fee that spurs additional federal revenue for providers while covering other costs is unlikely to run afoul of cost-cutting measures DC Republicans have floated for the Medicaid program.
But those talks in Washington could complicate Gov. Tony Evers’ call in the budget to triple the hospital assessment, a move the state’s largest hospital association generally supports.
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