This bill would lift a rule that blocked Medicaid from paying certain healthcare providers. It restores Medicaid payments to those providers and tells Medicaid to pay for care they already gave during the time the ban was in place, as if the ban never happened.

In plain terms, more clinics and doctors that were previously cut off would again be able to get paid for treating Medicaid patients. This aims to protect access to care for people who rely on Medicaid, and to make providers whole for services they already delivered.

• Who is affected: Medicaid patients; healthcare providers that had been barred; state Medicaid programs.
• What changes: The ban on Medicaid payments to certain entities is repealed, and past unpaid services during the ban must be paid.
• When: Takes effect upon enactment, with back pay for the period the ban covered, as described in the bill.