Explaining the Recent Growth in Medicaid Spending September 29, 1993 Report This article highlights the findings of the Commission's analysis of the Medicaid spending growth during the 1988 -1991 period. It provides the analysis underlying the Commission's report, The Medicaid Cost Explosion: Causes and Consequences (# 2001).Report:
State Variation in Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use Among Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries February 28, 2002 Report This study examines Medicaid pharmacy benefit use and spending among beneficiaries dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid in 10 states by analyzing 1995 enrollment and claims data from a new 12-state database. The study finds that dual-eligibles are relatively high users of the Medicaid pharmacy benefit, with substantial variation in…
Prescription Drug Discount Cards: Current Programs and Issues January 31, 2002 Report As policymakers consider a range of approaches to providing prescription drug coverage to the Medicare population in today s tight budgetary environment, one proposal that has been put forth by the Bush Administration is that of a Medicare-endorsed prescription drug discount card program. This report describes the range of existing…
New York’s Disaster Relief Medicaid: Insights and Implications for Covering Low-Income People July 30, 2002 Report This focus group study is of New Yorkers who enrolled in Disaster Relief Medicaid (DRM), a temporary public health insurance program created after the September 11th attacks. It is based on findings from six focus groups conducted with Hispanic, Chinese, and African American New Yorkers.
Women Who Left Welfare: Health Care Coverage, Access, and Use of Health Services June 1, 2002 Report This brief uses the latest available data from the National Survey of America's Families to assess the relationship of health coverage to work status, health, access and use of health services by women who left welfare in 1997 or after and had not returned by 1999.Issue Paper
The New Medicaid and CHIP Waiver Initiatives February 1, 2002 Report A new report describes past waiver activity, the principles of the new HIFA initiative, and related policy implications. Background Paper Appendix: Side-by-Side Comparison
Nursing Home Staffing Standards August 2, 2002 Report This policy brief describes the current federal staffing requirements and how states separately regulate staffing levels in nursing homes. It also presents data showing actual staffing levels in over half of this country’s nursing homes exceed the levels that states and the federal government require.
Dual Eligibles in Nursing Facilities and Medicare Drug Coverage November 1, 2003 Issue Brief 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)
States’ Concerns About the Medicare Drug Debate and the Fiscal Impact of Shifting the Cost of Dual Eligible Care October 31, 2003 Issue Brief As the U.S. Congress continues to search for an agreement on the form of a Medicare prescription drug benefit, the Commission has two new reports related to the debate. One new publication reports on findings from an October 26 discussion with state Medicaid officials on the implications of a Medicare…
States Strive to Limit Medicaid Expenditures for Prescribed Drugs January 30, 2002 Report A new report presenting year 2000 trends on prescription drug spending, summarizing states options in designing their benefit, and reviewing several ways states are using their flexibility to curb the rate of growth of their Medicaid drug budgets.Background Paper