Bob Atlas, a Strategic Advisor and President of EBG Advisors, Inc., and Kevin Malone, a Law Clerk – Admission Pending – in the Health Care and Life Sciences practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, were quoted in Law360, in “Verma Set to Expand State Medicaid Powers as CMS Head,” by Dani Kass. (Read the full version – subscription required.)
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“One might conclude that Trump gave Pence an opportunity to appoint someone, and he picked someone he knows and trusts,” said Bob Atlas, president of EBG Advisors Inc., Epstein Becker Green’s consulting arm. “One might go further and say this would potentially portend a nondissolution of Medicaid expansion but rather a continuation of Medicaid expansion under the [Affordable Care Act], however with a heavy flavoring that would be appealing to conservatives.”…
One immediate change that's likely under a Republican administration is a loosening of restrictions on when states can change benefits and eligibility determinations for Medicaid, said Epstein Becker Green law clerk Kevin Malone, who has worked at CMS’ Federal Coordinated Health Care Office. Those restrictions had been tightened during the Obama administration.
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