Medicaid Enrollment & Spending Growth: FY 2016 & 2017

Issue Brief

1. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicaid & CHIP Monthly Application, Eligibility Determinations, and Enrollment Reports. (Washington, DC: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, June 2016), http://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/program-information/medicaid-and-chip-enrollment-data/medicaid-and-chip-application-eligibility-determination-and-enrollment-data.html.

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2. The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured analysis of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Form CMS-64 Data, accessed September 2016.

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3. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. National Health Expenditures (Washington, DC: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, December 2015). http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-andReports/NationalHealthExpendData/NationalHealthAccountsHistorical.html.

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4. National Association of State Budget Officers, The Fiscal Survey of States (Washington, DC: National Association of State Budget Officers, Spring 2016), http://www.nasbo.org/mainsite/reports-data/fiscal-survey-of-states.

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5. National Association of State Budget Officers, The Fiscal Survey of States (Washington, DC: National Association of State Budget Officers, Spring 2016), http://www.nasbo.org/mainsite/reports-data/fiscal-survey-of-states.

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6. Lucy Dadayan and Donald Boyd, Slowing Growth in State Tax Revenues (New York, NY: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, June 2016), http://www.rockinst.org/pdf/government_finance/state_revenue_report/2016-06-30-SRR_103_final.pdf.

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7. Lucy Dadayan and Donald Boyd, Slowing Growth in State Tax Revenues (New York, NY: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, June 2016), http://www.rockinst.org/pdf/government_finance/state_revenue_report/2016-06-30-SRR_103_final.pdf.

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8. Lucy Dadayan and Donald Boyd, Double, Double, Oil and Trouble (New York, NY: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, February 2016), http://www.rockinst.org/pdf/government_finance/2016-02-By_Numbers_Brief_No5.pdf.

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9. Lucy Dadayan and Donald Boyd, Double, Double, Oil and Trouble (New York, NY: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, February 2016), http://www.rockinst.org/pdf/government_finance/2016-02-By_Numbers_Brief_No5.pdf.

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10. Historical state Medicaid spending refers to all non-federal spending, which may include local funds and provider taxes and fees as well as state general fund dollars. Data for state spending for FYs 2016-2017 collected through this survey reflect state spending, largely state general fund dollars.

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11. National Association of State Budget Officers, The Fiscal Survey of States (Washington, DC: National Association of State Budget Officers, Spring 2016), http://www.nasbo.org/mainsite/reports-data/fiscal-survey-of-states.

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Methodology

1. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicaid & CHIP Monthly Application, Eligibility Determinations, and Enrollment Reports. (Washington, DC: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, June 2016), http://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/program-information/medicaid-and-chip-enrollment-data/medicaid-and-chip-application-eligibility-determination-and-enrollment-data.html.

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2. Laura Snyder, Robin Rudowitz, Eileen Ellis and Dennis Roberts, Medicaid Enrollment: June 2013 Data Snapshot (Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, January 29, 2014), https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-enrollment-june-2013-data-snapshot/.

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Appendix

1. The Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts. Data Source: 80 Fed. Reg. 73779 – 73782 (Nov. 5, 2015) accessed September 8, 2016, https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/federal-matching-rate-and-multiplier/.

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2. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured estimates based on the data reported in:

   National Association of State Budget Officers, State Expenditure Report – Examining Fiscal 2012-2014 State Spending (Washington, DC: National Association of State Budget Officers, November 2014), http://www.nasbo.org/publications-data/state-expenditure-report/state-expenditure-report-fiscal-2012-2014-data.

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3. To be eligible for ARRA funds, states could not restrict eligibility or tighten enrollment procedures in Medicaid or CHIP.

   Vic Miller, Impact of the Medicaid Fiscal Relief Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, October 2011), https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/impact-of-the-medicaid-fiscal-relief-provisions/.

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