Florida Medicaid spending on undocumented immigrants plummets after new law

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "The best way for Florida to address uncompensated care, protect rural hospitals, and most importantly, help rural Floridians, is to accept the incredibly generous federal funding available to expand Medicaid and provide coverage to rural Floridians," Cuello wrote.
56% : Medicaid is funded by state and federal tax revenue, usually leaving states responsible for about 40 percent of the spending.
54% : Data provided to POLITICO by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show $148.4 million in state and federal Medicaid dollars went toward emergency coverage for immigrants in Florida in the year before the state's new immigration law took effect.
54% : But Medicaid also provides hospitals with millions of dollars in additional funding for treating a disproportionate number of Medicaid recipients, and that money is meant to make up for uncompensated care.
51% : Florida's Emergency Medical Assistance program for undocumented immigrants has seen a 54 percent drop in expenditures billed to Medicaid this year -- with less than two months remaining in the fiscal year -- since the state immigration law took effect, according to a POLITICO analysis.
48% : DeSantis signed a law last year directing hospitals that accept Medicaid to ask patients about their immigration status when they seek treatment.

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