Tenncare Stephen Smith News Today

TennCare reviews who is eligible for healthcare coverage every year, but that's been on pause since the pandemic.

Credit Blake Farmer / WPLN News Tennessee lawmakers rarely debate consequential legislation in the first few days of a session. But the General Assembly is forgoing precedent to alter how the state’s Medicaid program receives federal funding, and in the process will be altering roughly a third of the state budget before the Biden administration takes over. Passage is a given. The same Republican majority told TennCare to seek this so-called “block grant” for Medicaid, which has been a d...