Report estimates AHCA cuts $373.6 billion in Medicaid funds to ERC region

CSG-ERC region states would lose $127.1 billion in Medicaid funding from 2019 to 2028 under the American Health Care Act passed by the House last month, according to a new report from the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Most states are not in a position to fill the Medicaid funding gap that would be created by the AHCA and the authors note that provider rate and benefit cuts are unlikely to generate much savings. States will have to decide whether to fill some or all of the gap with state funds, or cut eligibility to keep state funding level. If all ERC states choose the latter, three million residents of the region would lose coverage. The authors point out that their estimates are very sensitive to changes in Medicaid spending growth and per capita cap growth rates.