SACRAMENTO — When Hunter Morgan bought an optometry practice in Southern California three years ago, one of the first things he did was start seeing patients who use Medicaid — the government-funded health insurance programme for low-income people.
Healthcare providers have been clamouring for California’s Medicaid programme, known as Medi-Cal, to pay them more. But California doesn’t have extra money thanks to back-to-back multibillion-dollar budget deficits. To pay doctors more, Newsom and the state Legislature chose to raise taxes — but not in the way you might think.
. It means the state will get $19.4 billion through 2026. On Thursday the Legislature is scheduled to vote to increase it again, generating an estimated $1.5 billion more. For optometrists, Newsom is proposing to raise rates to match those paid by Medicare, the federal government’s health insurance programme for people 65 and older. That could mean California’s roughly 8,000 licenced optometrists would get a lot more money for Medicaid patients — roughly $130 per exam instead of $47.
Plus, the federal government must approve California’s tax on managed care organizations every three years. The Biden administration has signalled recently that it wants to reduce how much money states can collect, and that could force California to lower the tax in the future, cutting into its ability to continue paying doctors higher rates.
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