Medicaid Spending

2022 National Healthcare Spending Growth Slowed to Pre-COVID Levels

December 15, 2023 - In 2022, national health expenditures hit $4.5 trillion, a 4.1 percent increase, with a couple of key spending areas seeing growth rates return to pre-pandemic levels, CMS announced in a fact sheet. Healthcare spending as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP) dropped to 17.3 percent, which is below the average for the three years before the...

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by Kelsey Waddill

While Congress has taken steps to ensure continuous eligibility for children on Medicaid, data indicates that expanding continuous eligibility to adults could result in lower uninsurance, some cost...

End of COVID-19 Policies Will Influence National Healthcare Spending

by Kelsey Waddill

CMS’s Office of the Actuary reported that the average annual growth in national healthcare spending between 2022 and 2031 will exceed the average annual growth in gross domestic product...

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by Victoria Bailey

Midwives and birth centers have been associated with improved maternal health outcomes at lower costs to Medicaid, but payment policies and other challenges pose barriers to expanding access to these...

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by Victoria Bailey

Need-based subgroups of dual eligible beneficiaries utilized both Medicare- and Medicaid-funded services, identifying the need for an integration program that includes benefits from both payers, a...

Medicaid Supplemental Payments Are Inefficient, Demand Change

by Kelsey Waddill

Medicaid supplemental payments are not need-based and often leave certain states with excess funds, demonstrating that the processes involved in these payments need to change, according to an issue...

MT Medicaid Expansion Leads to More Preventive Care Use, Lower Costs

by Kelsey Waddill

Since Montana’s Medicaid expansion policy went into effect in 2016, the program has seen strong results in its preventive care services utilization efforts and Medicaid spending, according to a...

Health Insurance Price Growth Rises to 20%, Outpacing Other Medical Care

by Kelsey Waddill

Health insurance prices rose faster than other medical care categories’ prices but broke from normal patterns by failing to outpace the overall price increases on all goods and services, a brief...

Immigrants’ Premium Contributions Exceed Payer Spending on Care

by Victoria Bailey

Immigrants’ premium contributions in 2017 were $58.3 billion higher than what private insurers and public programs spent on their healthcare, suggesting that immigrants help subsidize the US...

Medicaid Directors Project 12.5% Total Medicaid Spending Growth in FY 2022

by Kelsey Waddill

Medicaid directors identified enrollment and the end of flexibilities tied to the public health emergency as major influences on Medicaid spending, according to a report compiled by Health Management...

Total Medicaid Expansion Could Improve Uninsurance, Heath Equity

by Kelsey Waddill

If the 12 states that have not yet expanded Medicaid eligibility adopted Medicaid expansion and the US achieved total Medicaid expansion, they could provide access to healthcare coverage for 3.7...

Black Beneficiaries Generated Lower Medicaid Spending, Utilization

by Mark Melchionna

While reviewing health care spending statistics between White and Black Medicaid enrollees, JAMA researchers found disparities that showed lower service use and lower Medicaid spending among the Black...

HHS, CMS Extend American Rescue Plan Funding For HCBS Another Year

by Kelsey Waddill

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CMS announced that states will have another year to invest American Rescue Plan funds in home- and community-based services (HCBS). “The...

National Healthcare Spending May Grow 5% in the 2020s

by Kelsey Waddill

CMS has released its projections for national healthcare spending from 2021 to 2030, noting that healthcare as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP) will remain comparable to the share in...

How Ending the Public Health Emergency Impacts Medicaid Spending

by Kelsey Waddill

The end of the coronavirus public health emergency declaration could lead to a shift in Medicaid spending for state Medicaid programs and federal Medicaid costs, according to a report from the Robert...

Medicaid Spending on Home, Community-Based Services Up by $116B

by Victoria Bailey

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While the nation’s overall healthcare spending trend has been gradually increasing starting in 1970, the US experienced a particularly steep healthcare spending incline in 2020 of nearly 10...

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National healthcare spending increased by nearly 10 percent in 2020 to $4.1 trillion, largely due to the spike in federal spending in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Health Affairs...

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