Lawmakers in 16 states have not reached agreements about whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), leaving you unsure about whether your practice could see an influx of new Medicaid patients next year.
 
Readers of Part B News have been preparing for the possibility of an estimated 30 million newly insured patients through Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchanges.
 
Twenty states and the District of Columbia will participate in Medicaid expansion while 14 other states have declined, The Washington Post reports.
 
The other states remain split where some Republican governors seem interested in the expansion’s billions of federal dollars but Republican legislators oppose the idea, according to The Washington Post.
 
Expansion was mandatory before the Supreme Court ruled that states could refuse federal funds.