Medicaid: Recent Spending Experience and the Administration's Proposed Program Reform
T-HEHS-97-94
Published: Mar 11, 1997. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 1997.
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GAO discussed recent Medicaid spending trends and their potential implications for future outlays, focusing on: (1) key factors that explain the Medicaid 3.3-percent growth rate in fiscal year 1996; and (2) the administration's proposal to contain Medicaid cost growth through decreases in disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments and per capita caps, and to increase state flexibility.
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state relationsGrants-in-aidHealth care programsHealth insurance cost controlHospitalsLong-term careManaged health careMedical economic analysisPaymentsState-administered programsMedicaid