MedPage Today February 10, 2025
— One administration says costs went up partly because some people put off medical treatment
HARRISBURG, Pa. — States are absorbing substantial increases in healthcare costs for the poor, as they realize that the people remaining on Medicaid rolls after the COVID-19 pandemic are sicker than anticipated — and costlier to care for.
In Pennsylvania, state budget makers recently unveiledopens in a new tab or window the scale of that miscalculation, with Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) proposing an increase of $2.5 billion in Medicaid spending in the next fiscal year.
That amounts to a roughly 5% increase in overall state spending, mostly driven by the cost to care for unexpectedly sick people remaining on the state’s Medicaid rolls.
Costs went...
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