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Examining a Major Policy Shift: New Federal Limits on Medicaid Coverage for Children
This State Health Policy Briefing explores recent decisions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) which have serious implications for states striving to expand health coverage for children. Download available here.April 2008 -
Moving Beyond the Tug of War: Improving Medicaid Fiscal Integrity
This paper breaks new ground in crafting options to improve the relationship between states and the federal government in financing Medicaid. The paper explores the greatly different perceptions of the problem from the state and federal perspectives, and lays out a framework to improve fiscal integrity so policy makers can save their administrative time and energy for operating these critical and complex programs. The paper is a product of the NASHP Fiscal Integrity Project, which brought together participants with different perspectives to find common ground and generate ideas about improving Medicaid fiscal integrity.August 2006» -
Summary Brief – Moving Beyond the Tug of War: Improving Medicaid Fiscal Integrity
This is a summary brief of the paper Moving Beyond the Tug of War: Improving Medicaid Fiscal Integrity. The full paper presents options to improve the relationship between states and the federal government in financing Medicaid. It expands on the history of state financing mechanisms and federal responses by positing a new reality in which states have clear rules to follow and the federal government applies them fairly and consistently across states.August 2006» -
Making Medicaid Work for the 21st Century: Analyzing the Impact of Adjusting the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to Improve the Countercyclical Impact
One of a series of issue briefs designed to share with federal and state policymakers, as well as other stakeholders, the issues and options raised by the Making Medicaid Work for the 21st Century workgroup. This brief discusses three groups of alternatives that would amend the present federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP).January 2005»
