{"id":25229,"date":"2025-12-02T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25229"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:35:38","slug":"5-key-facts-about-medicaid-and-provider-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25229","title":{"rendered":"5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Provider Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Authors: Alice Burns, Elizabeth Williams, Anna Mudumala, Elizabeth Hinton, and Robin Rudowitz for The Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Dec 1, 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2025 reconciliation law imposes significant new restrictions on states\u2019 ability to generate Medicaid provider tax revenue, including prohibiting all states from establishing new provider taxes or from increasing existing taxes as well as reducing existing provider taxes for states that have adopted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion. Medicaid is jointly financed by the federal government and the states, with the federal government guaranteeing states federal matching payments with no pre-set limit. In federal fiscal year (FFY) 2024, the federal government paid 65% and states paid 35% of total Medicaid costs. States are permitted to finance the non-federal share of Medicaid spending through multiple sources, including state general funds, health-care related taxes (referred to as \u201cprovider taxes\u201d throughout this brief), and local government funds. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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