“I appreciated your willingness to work with us on this,” Landes told Watkins. “I think this is a good resolution.”

Landes will lead the study initiative for the House, while Sen. Emmett W. Hanger Jr., R-Augusta, will represent the Senate. The two Augusta County Republicans — on opposite sides of Medicaid expansion — are working on a resolution to define the areas for study.

“It hasn’t been worked out yet, but it will be,” Hanger said Monday.

Landes said he and Hanger also will work separately on the future of the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission, created in 2013 as a way to require cost-saving reforms to the program as a condition for expansion. Gov. Terry McAuliffe abandoned the commission and forbade his staff from aiding it earlier this year, after the assembly blocked expansion despite the administration’s claims that it had met the statutory requirements for reforms.

The McAuliffe administration promised Monday to work with the legislature in defining areas to study, but warned against using the review to further delay acting on expanding health coverage to the uninsured using federal money from higher taxes already paid under the Affordable Care Act, a top priority for the governor.