Current Issues in Medicaid Financing - An Overview of IGTs, UPLs, and DSH


 

Publication Date: April 2004

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Keywords: State Spending; Health Programs

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Medicaid is financed jointly by the federal government and states.  This shared financing has produced tension at times over the appropriate share of the cost of the program.  This report explains briefly the mechanisms used by states in recent years to finance their share of Medicaid expenditures.