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In Defense of Intergovernmental Transfers from Governmental Health Care Providers

[01/22/26]

Posted on January 22, 2026 in Health Law News

Published by: Hall Render

Some of the advocacy groups and think tanks that lobbied for the Medicaid provider tax restrictions in last year’s H.R. 1 are now renewing their criticisms of the states’ use of “intergovernmental transfers” (“IGTs”) from governmental health care providers to fund the non-federal share of Medicaid payments to those same providers.[1] The critics’ goal... READ MORE

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