Cuts to Medicaid contained in President Donald Trump’s new budget bill put 37 Georgia nursing homes at risk of closing, according to a study released by Brown University’s School of Public Health.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that the legislation, which the Republican-controlled Congress passed this month, will slash Medicaid by $1 trillion during the next 10 years. The bill passed without a single Democratic vote in either the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.
The study, requested by Senate Democrats, identified 579 nursing homes across the nation at risk of closing. It based those findings on nursing homes with 85% or more of their patients on Medicaid, those with occupancy rates of less than 80%, and those receiving poor-quality ratings from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
