Palm Beach County commissioners voted to preserve Medicaid funds for county hospitals during an emergency commission meeting last week.
The vote, unanimous among present commissioners at the meeting, was held two days before the GOP-supported “big, beautiful bill” was signed into law on July 4.
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Commissioners vote to preserve Medicaid funds for county hospitals
The decision allows hospitals to pay more than $300 million in taxes, which gets funneled to the state health care administration, matched by the federal government and then dispersed back to health care providers to help cover Medicaid expenses…