State Fiscal Conditions and Medicaid: 2014 Update

Executive Summary
  1. State Health Facts, Total Medicaid Enrollment, FY 2010, (Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation,) downloaded March 2014. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/total-medicaid-enrollment/.

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Issue Brief
  1. State Health Facts, Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for Medicaid and Multiplier, (Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation,) downloaded March 2014. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/federal-matching-rate-and-multiplier/.

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  2. Smith, Vernon et al. Medicaid in a Historic Time of Transformation: Results from a 50-State Budget Survey, (Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation,) October 2013. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/report/medicaid-in-a-historic-time-of-transformation-results-from-a-50-state-medicaid-budget-survey-for-state-fiscal-years-2013-and-2014/.

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  3. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured estimates based on the NASBO’s November 2013 State Expenditure Report (data for Actual FY 2012.)

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  4. The first two quarters of tax revenue growth were driven by significant increases in personal income tax revenue growth; experts noted that this significant growth appeared to be artificially driven by changes in federal tax policy. While personal income tax growth slowed in the third and fourth quarters of 2013, sales tax revenue growth has remained fairly constant (over 5 percent each quarter) during the 2013 calendar year.

    Lucy Dadayan and Donald J. Boyd, State Tax Revenues Slip Back to Slower Growth, (Albany, NY: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government,) March 11, 2014. http://www.rockinst.org/pdf/government_finance/state_revenue_report/2014-03-11_Data_Alertv3.pdf.

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  5. Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Employment Situation – March 2014.(Washington, DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics,) April 4, 2014. http://www.bls.gov/cps/.

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  6. Ibid.

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  7. Smith, Vernon et al. Medicaid in a Historic Time of Transformation: Results from a 50-State Budget Survey, (Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation,) October 2013. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/report/medicaid-in-a-historic-time-of-transformation-results-from-a-50-state-medicaid-budget-survey-for-state-fiscal-years-2013-and-2014/.

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  8. Ibid.

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  9. Ibid.

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  10. Sherry Glied and Stephanie Ma, How States Stand to Gain or Lose Federal Funds by Opting In or Out of the Medicaid Expansion. (New York City, NY: The Commonwealth Fund,) December 2013. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2013/Dec/Federal-Funds-Medicaid-Expansion.aspx.

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  11. John Holahan, Matthew Beuttgens, Caitlin Carroll and Stan Dorn, The Cost and Coverage Implications of the ACA Medicaid Expansion: National and State-by-State Analysis. (Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured,) November 2012. https://www.kff.org/health-reform/report/the-cost-and-coverage-implications-of-the/.

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  12. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, The Role of Medicaid in State Economies and the ACA. (Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation,) November 2013. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/the-role-of-medicaid-in-state-economies-and-the-aca/.

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