Amenable to Premium Assistance, but not Partial Medicaid Expansion: How Flexible Will CMS Be?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued two major Q & As regarding Medicaid expansion. In December 2012, CMS stated that it would not entertain a partial expansion less than 133% of the federal poverty level.  This month, it stated that it would consider premium assistance models as an alternate to Medicaid…