Friday, March 19, 2004

Medicaid Spending and Enrollment: State and National Data Update
At the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Unisured, "This series of tables provides recent data on state-by-state and national Medicaid spending and enrollment. Using the latest federal information sources available, the first set of tables contains information on Medicaid spending by service using data from the Centers on Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Form 64 for Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2002. A second set of tables is based on analysis of a more detailed data source, the Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS), which provides information on enrollment and spending per enrollee for FFY 2000. Both sets of tables were prepared for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured by the Urban Institute." See also at the KCMU web site, Medicaid's Federal-State Partnership: Alternatives for Improving Financial Integrity - Summary of Issues, Approaches, and Alternatives for Reform - "In this report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Penny Thompson, former deputy director for the Center for Medicaid and State Operations, used existing models from the private sector and other government programs to assess Medicaid’s financial management and to develop options for improvement. This table summarizes the report’s findings."  
  

New York Health Care Reform Working Group Interim Report
A report, in Adobe Acrobat format, available at the Open Minds web site - "In order to examine this multifaceted problem, Governor Pataki convened a Health Care Reform Working Group -- calling upon the experience and knowledge of business and government leaders, past and present, to provide recommendations to make our health care system more effective and efficient. Due to the complexity, size and scope of today’s Medicaid program, the Working Group chose to review broad subject areas to reach conceptual agreement first on topics to address, and then to review proposals developed to address the problems in these areas. The Working Group identified specific areas or key issues that needed to be explored and reviewed. In this initial report, the Working Group addresses key areas such as long term care, certificate of need, local share of Medicaid costs, and prescription drug costs."