Recent Publications on Medicaid and State Budgets

Medicaid is a joint federal-state program in which Federal Medicaid matching payments are projected to be $147 billion FY 2002, while state spending is estimated at about $100 billion.

Because Medicaid is such a large part of state budgets and states are struggling with their overall fiscal situations, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured continues to follow developments in Medicaid progams related to state budgets. Below are the most recent publications on this important topic.

• Medicaid and State Budgets: An Overview of Five States’ Experiences in 2001
• The Role of Medicaid in State Budgets
• Medicaid and State Budgets: An October 2001 Update
• Medicaid Budgets Under Stress: Survey Findings for State Fiscal Year 2000, 2001, and 2002