Another Mediscam?

House lawmakers have come up with a new scheme to boost Medicaid reimbursements to health care providers.

Finance Committee members estimate the plan could raise millions of dollars.

But the federal government has to approve the plan. That's because those millions are federal dollars.

For a decade, the state has successfully used a similar scheme to get federal money.

Doug Hall with the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies was one of that plan's originators.

He described the current effort to NHPR's Mark Bevis.