Catherine (Kat) Kirkland
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first heard Jul 2026
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Hello and welcome to the AHLA podcast.
My name is Kat Kirkland.
I'm a partner at King and Spaulding and was one of the presenters at this year's
AHLA Medicare and Medicaid Institute in Baltimore for the 2026 conference.
I helped present with my co-presenter who will introduce himself shortly on Medicaid financing.
So we talked about the past, present, and future of Medicaid financing.
Absolutely.
I feel like we have had so many updates since we last talked about this just because there's been more rulemaking, there's been more kind of informal guidance from CMS regarding.
the programs that are financed by Medicaid, but also provider taxes and implications of the one big beautiful bill.
We've had, you know, a flurry of proposed rules in the past week that implicate so much of what we do.
So we have a lot of ground to cover and and talk about today.
No, I think that sounds great.
Um, so you know, just to build off of what you said, I think what we talked about in Bal Baltimore was really kind of an intro level of here is how that financing works, how that state and federal partnership, each kind of having a buy-in works, um, how the state share is determined based off of the federal match and how that
percentage changes from year to year.
But I think, you know, today to get into really that nitty-gritty that you're talking about, Baxter, of what are the sources of that state share and how have those, you know, changed over the years and are being kind of, you know, directly implicated by changes from the One Big Beautiful Bill and federal rulemaking.
I think would be a great a great way to focus our efforts.
You know, one of the main topics of our conversation in Baltimore were provider taxes.
And just to level set, you know, provider taxes, typically what we see are taxes on hospitals, usually net patient revenue, it can be assessed by other metrics as well.
But there has been um historically a six percent cap on provider taxes for lack of a better word, in terms of um if you can tax up to six percent of net patient.
revenue without having to um meet different federal requirements.
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