In a letter to the leaders of the two legislative appropriations committees, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Acting Secretary Beverly Mackereth has questioned whether the state can rely on the continued availability of certain key parts of funding Medicaid expansion in the commonwealth.
In particular, Secretary Mackereth questioned whether Pennsylvania would be able to continue levying its gross receipts tax on managed care organizations, which is expected to produce $1.5 billion in revenue to use for Medicaid over the next seven years.
Pennsylvania also has a number of potential Medicaid deferrals and allowances under consideration by the federal government that could result in the state receiving less federal Medicaid matching money.
Read Secretary Mackereth’s letter to legislative leaders, and a press release that accompanies that letter, here on the web site of PR Newswire.