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How the pandemic continues to shape Medicaid priorities: results from an annual Medicaid budget survey for state fiscal years 2022 and 2023
How the pandemic continues to shape Medicaid priorities: results from an annual Medicaid budget survey for state fiscal years 2022 and 2023
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Hinton, Elizabeth, (Of Kaiser Family Foundation), author
Guth, Madeline, author
Raphael, Jada, author
Haldar, Sweta, author
Rudowitz, Robin, author
Gifford, Kathleen, author
Lashbrook, Aimee, author
Nardone, Mike, author
Wimmer, Matt., author - Contributor(s):
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body.
National Association of Medical Directors, issuing body. - Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Kaiser Family Foundation ; Washington, DC National Association of Medical Directors, October 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Budgets
COVID-19 -- economics
Medicaid -- organization & administration
Health Equity
Insurance Benefits
Managed Care Programs
State Government
Taxes
Telemedicine
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected Medicaid program spending, enrollment, and policy, challenging state Medicaid agencies, providers, and enrollees in a variety of ways. Serving nearly 90 million low-income Americans and accounting for one-sixth of health care spending (and half of long-term care spending) and a large share of state budgets, Medicaid is a key part of the overall health care system and has had a significant role in COVID-19 response efforts. While the end date of the federal public health emergency (PHE) is currently unknown, state Medicaid programs are preparing for the unwinding of policies in place during the PHE. The PHE is currently set to end in mid-January, and the Biden Administration has indicated it will provide states with 60-day notice before it ends (i.e., in mid-November if the PHE is not extended again). The duration of the PHE will affect a range of emergency policy options in place as well as a 6.2 percentage point increase in the federal match rate (“FMAP”) available if states meet certain “maintenance of eligibility” requirements included in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). This report highlights certain policies in place in state Medicaid programs in state fiscal year (FY) 2022 and policy changes implemented or planned for FY 2023, which began on July 1, 2022 for most states. The findings are drawn from the 22nd annual budget survey of Medicaid officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and Health Management Associates (HMA), in collaboration with the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD). Overall, 49 states responded to this year’s survey, although response rates for specific questions varied. States completed this survey in mid-summer of 2022, as COVID-19 deaths started to rise after a low in April 2022, due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant, waning vaccine immunity, and relatively low booster uptake.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (97 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918591677206676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918591677206676