New Kaiser Survey on Medicaid

Oct 2nd, 2009

The recently released annual survey of state Medicaid directors, conducted for the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, found that the program had been spared the worst effects of massive state budget shortfalls because of federal aid in the stimulus package. But it also revealed concerns about what will happen when federal relief dries up at the close of 2010.

With unemployment rising, enrollment in state Medicaid programs grew by an average of 5.4 percent in the previous fiscal year, the highest rate in six years, according to the Kaiser survey. In eight states, the growth exceeded 10 percent. Enrollment is expected to continue to accelerate in 2010, growing by 6.6 percent.

Read the full Kaiser Medicaid survey here.

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