Bill > S3578

This bill, titled the "Protect Medicaid Act," seeks to amend the Social Security Act to prohibit federal Medicaid funding for the administrative costs of providing health benefits to individuals who are unauthorized immigrants. Specifically, the bill would add a new provision to Section 1903(i) of the Social Security Act to prohibit Medicaid payments for administrative costs related to state programs that provide health benefits to non-citizens who are ineligible for Medicaid due to immigration status, with an exception allowing payment for costs associated with ensuring compliance with this prohibition. Additionally, the bill requires the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to submit a report to Congress on how states that provide health benefits to ineligible non-citizens separate Medicaid administrative costs, the procedures and systems they use to ensure compliance, their methods of financing such state programs, and the impact on the average manufacturer price of covered outpatient drugs provided to these non-citizens under Medicaid and the 340B drug discount program.