Medicaid expansion spending and enrollment in context: an early look at CMS claims data for 2014
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
- Author(s):
- Snyder, Laura, author Young, Katherine, author Rudowitz, Robin, author Garfield, Rachel, author
- Contributor(s):
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Menlo Park, CA : Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2016
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Expenditures -- statistics & numerical data Medicaid -- statistics & numerical data United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- There have been long-standing questions about the effect the Medicaid expansion would have on spending and enrollment. Preliminary data from the Medicaid Budget and Expenditure System (MBES) released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may provide some early insights into these questions. CMS released preliminary spending and enrollment data from the MBES that covers the period from January 2014 through December 2014. This period is of particular interest because these are the first quarters that the Medicaid expansion was in effect. During this period, 27 states including DC, had implemented the Medicaid expansion; all but two of these states – Michigan (April 1, 2014) and New Hampshire (August 15, 2014) – implemented the Medicaid expansion January 1, 2014. The MBES provides monthly Medicaid enrollment and quarterly Medicaid expenditure data with specific information about enrollment and spending for the new adult eligibility group, also referred to as the “Group VIII.” The new adult group includes both those newly eligible under the Medicaid expansion (eligible for 100% federal match through December 2016) and those previously eligible (that were matched at traditional match rates but now receive a higher federal match.) While all states have reported expenditure data for the January – December 2014 period, California and North Dakota have not reported enrollment data for that same period. This brief examines the MBES data to be able to put the spending and enrollment for the expansion into the context of total Medicaid spending and enrollment.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (15 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101677532 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101677532