{"id":26305,"date":"2026-07-23T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26305"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:34:03","slug":"cms-proposes-new-provider-tax-class-for-payers-in-246b-medicaid-overhaul-8-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26305","title":{"rendered":"CMS proposes new provider tax class for payers in $246B Medicaid overhaul: 8 things to know\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Alan Condon for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMS on July 21\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/fact-sheets\/amending-indirect-hold-harmless-threshold-health-care-related-taxes-proposed-rule-cms-2452-p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposed<\/a>\u00a0sweeping changes to Medicaid provider tax policy that would\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aha.org\/news\/headline\/2026-07-21-cms-issues-proposed-provider-tax-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">replace<\/a>\u00a0the longstanding 6% federal threshold with state- and provider-specific limits, phase down allowable taxes in Medicaid expansion states, create a new provider tax class for payers and strengthen federal oversight of a financing mechanism used by nearly every state.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/cms-proposes-medicaid-provider-tax-rule-to-cut-federal-spending-by-246b-8-things-to-know\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/cms-proposes-medicaid-provider-tax-rule-to-cut-federal-spending-by-246b-8-things-to-know\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Alan Condon for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS on July 21\u00a0proposed\u00a0sweeping changes to Medicaid provider tax policy that would\u00a0replace\u00a0the longstanding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,16],"tags":[80,385,238,67],"class_list":["post-26305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicaid","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26306,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26305\/revisions\/26306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}