The Federal-State Medicaid Match: An Ongoing Tug-of-War over Practice and Policy

Authors

Karen Matherlee, George Washington University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-15-2000

Abstract

Reviewing Medicaid match issues since the latter 1980s, this issue brief traces ways in which some states have used creative financing to get more Medicaid matching dollars than they otherwise would qualify for from the federal government. It explores the latest mechanism, states' use of so-called intergovernmental transfers of funds (to avoid established upper payment limits) to increase their matches, triggering efforts by the Senate Finance Committee and the federal Medicaid agency to ban such transfers.

Comments

Issue brief no. 760

Recommended Citation

Matherlee, Karen, "The Federal-State Medicaid Match: An Ongoing Tug-of-War over Practice and Policy" (2000). National Health Policy Forum. Paper 67.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/sphhs_centers_nhpf/67

Open Access

yes