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The report finds that rapid Medicaid spending growth has been driven, in part, by enrollment increases resulting from the loss of income and private insurance coverage during the current economic downturn, together with continued increases in hospital and prescription drug costs that have affected the entire health care sector. Issue Paper (.
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.
The Impact of the "Medigrant" Plan on the Federal Payments to States The analysis examines the conference agreement plan for the redistribution of federal funds under a block grant for the Medicaid program. It also discusses the implications of the reductions in federal spending for beneficiary coverage.
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