Publications and Reports
Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid Enrollment and Spending Trends
The report presents the findings of a 50 state survey of Medicaid directors, identifying state Medicaid spending trends and how states are responding to them for FY 2003 budgets.
Kaiser Family Foundation, September 19, 2002
"Medicaid and Other State Healthcare Issues: The Current Situation"
This report discusses how the national recession and the economic fallout of September 11th combined with the explosion in Medicaid spending caused a $40 to $50 billion budget shortfall in over 40 states in fiscal 2002.
National Governors Association, May 2002
"Medicaid to Stress State Budgets"
This report discusses a preliminary review of actual fiscal 2001 and estimated fiscal 2002 state expenditures showing
that Medicaid spending continues to outpace total state expenditure growth.
National Association of State Budget Officers, March 2002
"Medicaid and SCHIP: Recent HHS Approvals of Demonstration Waiver Projects Raise Concern"
This report reviews section 1115
waiver requests involving expanding coverage to the uninsured or providing seniors drug coverage that HHS has received since the first of
these initiatives was put into effect in August 2001.
Government Accounting Office (GAO), July 2002
Kaiser Family Foundation: How are States Planning to Reduce the Growth in Medicaid Costs?
An issue update that provides preliminary results from a survey of the 50 states and the District of Columbia on their plans to constrain Medicaid cost growth.
Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2002
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