The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized the methodology and data sources it will use to determine 2019 and 2020 federal payment amounts to individual states that establish a Basic Health Program (BHP) under the Affordable Care Act. A BHP provides health benefit coverage to low-income individuals otherwise eligible to purchase coverage through Affordable Insurance Exchanges in states that elect to operate such a program. CMS expects the methodology for benefit year 2020 to shift a portion of BHP costs from the federal government to the states operating a BHP.
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