“States will be the ones who will feel the pain of this unintended and misguided policy [for an excise tax on insurers, including Medicaid managed plans, that begins in 2014]. There seemed to be confusion and uncertainty about whether this fee applied to Medicaid health plans when it was originally considered by Congress, and they certainly didn’t think about the implications of this tax within Medicaid.”
— Thomas Johnson, president and CEO of Medicaid Health Plans of America, told AIS’s Medicare Advantage News.
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