The Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation will release a score of the Obamacare repeal and replace bill the week of May 22, according to the agency.
The bill, the American Health Care Act, was passed by the House last week. The Senate needs to see the scoring for the bill to abide by congressional rules, though Senate leaders have said they are writing their own version of legislation to repeal and replace parts of Obamacare.
The scoring will reveal how much the legislation would cost the federal government and how many more people would be uninsured if the bill were to become law. Two previous estimates showed that 24 million more people would be uninsured by 2026 and that Medicaid would be cut by $880 billion.
The latest change would evaluate the result of some states using a waiver to opt out of certain Obamacare protections that require insurance companies to cover a wide range of medical benefits, and a provision that mandates insurance companies charge customers of the same age the same price regardless of whether they have a pre-existing illness.
CBO officials said they would provide advanced notice of the date and time for releasing the report before publishing it.
The week of May 22 is the same week that the Trump administration and the House will need to provide a court update about a case challenging Obamacare payments to insurers.
