Findings from Florida State University Update Knowledge of Medicaid (Medicaid waivers and negotiated federalism in the US: is there relevance to…

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Findings from Florida State University Update Knowledge of Medicaid (Medicaid waivers and negotiated federalism in the US: is there relevance to other federal systems?)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- New research on Medicare and Medicaid - Medicaid is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Tallahassee, Florida, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Medicaid waivers have been a principal tool of innovation in health policy in the US since at least the mid 1970s. As Republicans seek to give the states more flexibility in their implementation and management of both Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act or its replacement, waiver authority is likely to be one of the key work arounds for avoiding political barriers in the US Senate."

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Florida State University, "While block-granting Medicaid may require 60 senate votes, waiver authority already exists in both Medicaid law and the Affordable Care Act. Waivers also have great potential for application in other federal nations. Yet there is no theory to explain the way the application and review process evolves or the factors likely to shape the outcome."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "After a discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of what we call negotiated federalism', we apply it to examples of Medicaid waivers to see if the theory's key elements - politics, party congruence, leverage, credit taking and experience - offer a useful perspective on this federal-state interaction so important to health policy."

For more information on this research see: Medicaid waivers and negotiated federalism in the US: is there relevance to other federal systems? Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 2017;22(4):261-264. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA (see also Medicare and Medicaid - Medicaid).

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting W.G. Weissert, Florida State University, Public Hlth Program, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/1355819617702175. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Tallahassee, Florida, United States, North and Central America, Medicare and Medicaid, Health Policy, Legislation, Florida State University.