Health Payer Intelligence January 16, 2020
State Medicaid spending from states’ own revenues increased as states took on more responsibility for their own Medicaid spending in 2017.
As the promise of federal funding slacked in 2017, states put more of their own funds toward their Medicaid programs, with Medicaid spending absorbing 17 percent of overall state-generated funds, according to Pew research.
“After a post-recession spike, the share of state funds spent on the program has stayed high but nearly level—even as states that expanded Medicaid eligibility for the first time picked up a fraction of the extra costs,” the researchers explained.
Medicaid spending’s share of state-generated funds dipped during the recession and jumped in 2012. Since then, it has been steadily creeping up to five percent...
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