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Medicaid innovation is being squeezed from two directions: the Trump administration is enforcing tighter budget-neutrality rules for Section 1115 waivers—putting Arkansas coverage and potentially other expansion demonstrations at risk—while the 2025 reconciliation law’s caps on Medicaid state directed payments could reduce hospital funding across at least 37 states, with large exposure in California, Texas, Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Louisiana, Arizona, and Michigan. For VBC leaders, the near-term risk is that states and managed care plans may have less room to finance hospital-based transformation, supplemental quality pools, and waiver-enabled population health initiatives just as CMS is also pushing more operational transparency and automation around utilization management through FHIR-enabled prior authorization and new insurer denial-rate reporting. See KFF’s analysis of state directed payment exposure and KFF Health News on the Trump CMS waiver decision in Arkansas.

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