10 to hear appeals from Kansas and Louisiana on lower court rulings that have stopped the states from blocking
Medicaid funds going to Planned Parenthood.
Under Arkansas' hybrid expansion program,
Medicaid funds are used to purchase private plans for low-income residents through the insurance marketplace.
Slashing
Medicaid funds would be especially harmful to black and Latina women, who are more likely than white women to be insured through Medicaid.
The state had a separate allotment of
Medicaid funds for mental health services, alternately called behavioral health services.
To fix the problem, states could allow Medicaid-eligible residents 12 uninterrupted months on Medicaid, use
Medicaid funds to subsidize marketplace coverage for low-income residents, and encourage the same health insurers to offer plans in Medicaid and in the marketplaces, which would allow continuous coverage regardless of who was paying.
The law uses federal
Medicaid funds to buy private insurance for about 250,000 state residents who earn up to 133 per cent of the poverty line minimum, or USD15,415 per year.
The entire act was upheld, although the Court did limitthe federal government's power to terminate states'
Medicaid funds. The Court held that the Medicaid portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act P.L.
Supreme Court upheld the law, with the exception of the provision that would have allowed the federal government to withhold all federal
Medicaid funds from states that don't expand their Medicaid programs.
In its landmark 5-4 ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the court made it more difficult for the federal government to withhold existing
Medicaid funds from states that refuse to participate in the law's Medicaid expansion.
Those providers must then work through pharmacy benefits managers to distribute
Medicaid funds to pharmacies.
Medicaid funds - public funds used to pay for Medicaid