Tag: Medicare Part D
The brief’s key findings are: The idea of capping federal Medicaid payments to states at a set amount per person has received recent attention, raising the question of how it would affect enrollment. For insight, this study looks at a current policy that requires states to pay the federal government a lump sum for eac…
Abstract To curb rising Medicaid costs at the federal level, a number of recent policy proposals suggest capitation financing, under which program costs are fixed per beneficiary. This study examines to what extent more generous capitated federal subsidies would likely cause states to increase Medicaid enrollment. To answer this question, the analysis identifies a component…
