An Overview of Medicaid Enrollees with Diabetes in 2003

Publication Date: October 2007

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Keywords: Health costs; Entitlement Programs

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This brief provides a first look at what Medicaid spends on the nearly 2 million enrollees with diabetes.  Included among the findings is that the six percent of enrollees with diabetes accounted for 16 percent of total Medicaid spending.