Medicaid Reform : Raising Federal Medical Assistance Percentages While Capping Payments to States.

Discusses how a change in the proportion of medical assistance spending paid by the Federal government, called the Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP), could affect the level of total medical assistance spending under a system in which Federal matching payments are capped at a pre-determine...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1996.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Discusses how a change in the proportion of medical assistance spending paid by the Federal government, called the Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP), could affect the level of total medical assistance spending under a system in which Federal matching payments are capped at a pre-determined level. Reviews potential Federal and State budgetary impacts of increasing the FMAP in the context of the current Medicaid program.
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