Acceleration of Medicaid Spending Reflects Mounting Pressures


 

Publication Date: May 2002

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This issue paper reveals that after three years of relatively slow spending growth, Medicaid spending accelerated in 1999 and 2000, and more rapid growth appears likely to continue. Medicaid spending grew by 7.1 percent ind FY 1999 and 8.6 percent in FY 2000.