Medicaid: Current Benefits and Flexibility

Two issue briefs discuss the minimum requirements for states to receive federal Medicaid matching funds and the options states have under federal law and waivers to tailor their Medicaid programs.

Medicaid as a Health Insurer: Current Benefits and Flexibility

Medicaid as a Long-term Care Program: Current Benefits and Flexibility

News on Medicaid and State Budgets – September and October 2003

State Budget News (.pdf)

Additional news on Medicaid and state budgets

This brief focuses on one subset of “flexibility” issues: the current federal benefits and cost-sharing rules that apply with respect to long-term care.

Issue Paper (.pdf)

This issue brief focuses on one subset of “flexibility” issues: the current federal benefits and cost-sharing rules that apply with respect to acute care.

Issue Paper (.pdf)

The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured’s video Medicaid Matters: Hearing from Families profiles five families who have children covered by Medicaid. These five families reflect the diversity of those helped by Medicaid — families from all over the country of varying races/ethnicities, ages and sizes. Each family also illustrates a particular health care need and shows how Medicaid assists in obtaining needed health care services.

 Medicaid Matters: Hearing from FamiliesAlso available in Low Speed. (8 min.)

 Insuring a Healthy Birth: Prenatal Care, The Diaz FamilyAlso available in Low Speed. (3 min.)

 Growing and Active: Covering the Unexpected, The Prisk FamilyAlso available in Low Speed. (4 min.)

 Encouraging Healthy Adolescence: Quality of Care, The Dessasau FamilyAlso available in Low Speed. (4 min.)

The surveys conducted under this ongoing partnership are designed to gain a deeper understanding of the Hispanic population in the United States. The Pew Hispanic Center is a non-partisan research center supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadelphia. The Center is a project of the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. Representatives from Pew and Kaiser work together to develop survey questionnaires and analyze results. The two organizations release joint survey reports, however each organization bears sole responsibility for any additional work that appears under its name.

National Survey of Latinos: The Latino Electorate — October 2002The Hispanic electorate is emerging as a distinct presence on the political landscape, demonstrating broad but shallow party loyalty and a mixture of idealogical beliefs and policy positions that defies easy categorization, according to a national survey.

2002 National Survey of Latinos – – December 2002This comprehensive national survey examines how members of the Hispanic community identify themselves, their views of the United States, their experiences with discrimination both within the Latino community itself and from non-Latino groups, their language abilities and preferences, their economic and financial situations and their experiences within the health care system.

National Survey of Latinos: Education – – January 2004A comprehensive survey of Latino attitudes toward education, public schools and a variety of education issues, including the No Child Left Behind Act.

Survey Briefs from the 2002 National Survey of Latinos – – March 2004Five survey issue briefs that further examine the findings from the 2002 National Survey of Latinos. Topics include: state differences, generational differences, health care experiences, assimilation and language, and bilingualism.

2004 National Survey of Latinos: Politics and Civic Participation — July 2004This comprehensive survey assesses Latino attitudes in the 2004 election year. The third annual survey of Latinos from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation, the new survey examines political issues and the presidential election campaign, the economy, health care, Iraq and immigration.

Completed for the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, by Health Management Associates. Compiled from Medicaid State Plans and Amendments approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and from State websites, with verification by State and Territorial Medicaid officials in March 2003.

This Briefing Note explores the issues presented for the design and administration of a new Medicare drug benefit by dually eligible nursing facility residents.

Issue Paper (.pdf)

This document, prepared by Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., provides a detailed side-by-side comparison of the prescription drug provisions of the Conference Agreement (H.R. 1) passed by the House and Senate in November 2003 and the House (H.R. 1) and Senate (S. 1) Medicare proposals passed in June 2003.

Report (.pdf)