Medicaid is a federal-state partnership aimed at making sure families on fixed incomes, the disabled, children, and pregnant women have access to health care. In West Virginia, the federal government already pays 73.7 percent of the health care costs for Medicaid enrollees – under the Rockefeller-provision, that would increase temporarily to 79.9 percent.
West Virginia will receive additional payments soon. It’s estimated that the state could receive nearly $450 million in federal funding over the next two years to help meet growing enrollment needs in Medicaid.
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