Protect Medicaid Act

Protect Medicaid Act

This bill prohibits federal payment under Medicaid for the administrative costs of providing health benefits to noncitizens who are ineligible for Medicaid based on their immigration status. The Department of Health and Human Services must report on specified information regarding states that provide health benefits to such individuals.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7014 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7014

   To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to prohibit Federal 
   Medicaid funding for the administrative costs of providing health 
        benefits to individuals who are unauthorized immigrants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 17, 2024

 Mr. Hudson (for himself, Mr. Guthrie, and Mr. Calvert) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to prohibit Federal 
   Medicaid funding for the administrative costs of providing health 
        benefits to individuals who are unauthorized immigrants.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protect Medicaid Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING FEDERAL MEDICAID FUNDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE 
              COSTS OF PROVIDING HEALTH BENEFITS TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE 
              UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRANTS.

    Section 1903(i) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396b(i)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (26), by striking ``; or'' and inserting a 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (27), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (27) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(28) with respect to any amounts expended for the 
        administration of a State program associated with providing 
        health benefits to noncitizens who are not lawfully admitted 
        permanent residents and are ineligible for medical assistance 
        under this title on the basis of not having a satisfactory 
        immigration status (as defined in section 1137(d)(1)(B)(iii)) 
        (except that such prohibition shall not be construed as 
        prohibiting payment under the preceding provisions of this 
        section for costs attributable to the establishment or 
        operation of a system designed to ensure compliance with such 
        prohibition).''.

SEC. 3. INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services 
shall submit to Congress a report that includes the following 
information with respect to States that provide health benefits to 
noncitizens who are not lawfully admitted permanent residents and are 
ineligible on the basis of immigration status for medical assistance 
under title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.):
            (1) How such States separate amounts expended on the 
        administrative costs related to the State's Medicaid program 
        and amounts expended on administrative costs related to 
        providing health benefits to such noncitizens.
            (2) The types of procedures, protocols, or systems that 
        such States employ to ensure that they are in full compliance 
        with prohibitions on the use of Federal funding to provide 
        health benefits to such noncitizens and how effective they are 
        at ensuring compliance.
            (3) A description of States' methods of financing State 
        programs that provide health benefits to such noncitizens who 
        are ineligible for medical assistance due to not having a 
        satisfactory immigration status, including through the 
        increased use of provider taxes and intergovernmental transfers 
        to finance the non-Federal share of expenditures under the 
        State Medicaid program for medical assistance provided to 
        individuals who are not so ineligible.
            (4) An analysis of--
                    (A) the extent to which such noncitizens are 
                provided covered outpatient drugs purchased under--
                            (i) the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program under 
                        section 1927 of the Social Security Act (42 
                        U.S.C. 1396r-8); or
                            (ii) the drug discount program under 
                        section 340B of the Public Health Service Act 
                        (42 U.S.C. 256b); and
                    (B) the effect that the provision to such 
                noncitizens of covered outpatient drugs purchased under 
                the programs described in subparagraph (A) has on the 
                average manufacturer price (as defined in section 
                1927(k)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-
                8(k)(1))) of such drugs, including whether the average 
                manufacturer price for such drugs would be lower if no 
                drugs purchased under such programs were provided to 
                such noncitizens.
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