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Virginia hospitals face 'billions' in cuts as Medicaid officials await federal guidance
VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES, JUL 23 – Virginia Medicaid faces uncertainty after federal legislation imposes new work requirements and verification rules, risking $2 billion annual hospital losses and possible rural closures.
- Harborview Medical Center may face a negative margin of-0.9% due to expected cuts in federal Medicaid direct payments, as stated by CEO Sommer Kleweno Walley.
- Virginia officials are uncertain about the impacts of federal cuts, as they await guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to Cheryl Roberts, director of the state agency that administers Medicaid.
- Changes in Virginia's Medicaid enrollment process will require proof of eligibility every six months starting January 1, 2027, according to Cheryl Roberts.
- Beginning in October 2026, the federal government will decrease the reimbursement rate for emergency medical care for undocumented immigrants, as reported by Cheryl Roberts.
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Virginia lawmakers, health officials brace for Medicaid changes • Virginia Mercury
A CT scan machine in a hospital. (Photo by Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)As Virginia lawmakers heard from state health officials Wednesday about potential effects of federal healthcare funding changes approved by Congress earlier this month, it became clear to Del. Cia Price, D-Newport News: “we at this time do not have a true sense of what we’re up against.” That’s because of the whiplash created by the swift passage of the “One Big Be…
Virginia lawmakers, health officials brace for Medicaid changes
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Hospital in the red: Future of WA's Harborview tied to fading federal dollars
(The Center Square) – Washington state's largest public hospital could go into the red in 2026 despite a successful fiscal year 2025, with the anticipated loss of Medicaid direct payments.
State agency that oversees Medicaid says they don’t know how Trump’s 'big, beautiful' bill will affect Medicaid in Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Virginia’s Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS), the state agency that oversees Virginia’s Medicaid program, said weeks after President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill was signed, they don’t know how cuts to Medicaid will affect the program in Virginia. “What I’m emphasizing is when I say we don’t know, we really don’t know yet,” DMAS Director Cheryl Roberts told Virginia’s Joint Commission on Health Care on…
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