… Using data from FY 1993 for patients with one or more admissions at six Baltimore city
hospitals and who had incurred total annual Medicaid costs of $20,000 or higher, we examined …

… in Medicaid financing and explores the implications of restructuring proposals for the nation's
health care … for at least 50 percent of allowable Medicaid costs in every state. However, the …

… Medicaid is determined by the cost of care for enrolled people. The federal and state governments
split this cost… Medicaid costs. The 1995–96 proposals, for the first time, capped federal …

… pay 90 to 100 percent of the incremental Medicaid costs associated with the higher FPL and
to … Medicaid recipients, who represent 25 percent of enrollees and 69 percent of total costs. …

… Despite these high costs, moreover, Medicare continues to cover only about 45 percent of
the health care costs of the elderly, and Medicaid still fails to reach millions of those who are …

… cost shifting, with private payers facing higher rates to recoup reductions in reimbursement
from Medicare and Medicaid. … bonuses if additional cost shifting to private payers is identified. …

… health care experience, I discuss the federal and other initiatives that were taken in the 1970s
to curb health care cost … care and Medicaid eligibles. HCFA has been financing various …

… , along with a short-lived slowdown in Medicaid cost increases.Footnote19 Policy-makers …
behavior” initiatives, restructured nearly its entire Medicaid program around incentives. …

… sweeping restructuring of … Medicaid agencies-controlling health care costs. The underlying
assumption in many states is that changing to a managed care approach will produce cost …

… restructure care processes, but a volume-based payment system may hinder such
transformations. In 2013 Oregon’s Medicaid … not reflect the actual cost to the Medicaid program, …