ANCOR Medicaid One-Stop Center

CMS Medicaid Waiver and Demonstration List

CMS Medicaid Waiver and Demonstration Map by States

Medicaid Reform - State Specific News

• Kaiser: Medicaid & CHIP State Health Data
• T2Can's May 2009 Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Cuts & Expansions (May 1, 2009)
• Arizona Court Rescinds Injunction Against State Cuts to DD and Remands Case to Superior Court for Further Proceedings (April 30, 2009)
• CMS Delays Rule on State Flexibility for Medicaid Benefit Packages and Reopens Comment Period (April 3, 2009)
• Families USA: State Health Beat – A Resource for State Health Care News
• Kaiser: FY 2009 State Medicaid Cost Containment Actions Taken To Date (March 2009)
• Kaiser: FY 2007 State Positive Medicaid Policy Taken to Date (March 2009)
• Kaiser: Missouri's 2005 Medicaid Cuts: How Did They Affect Enrollees and Providers? (February 18, 2009)
• Stateline: Medicaid Programs Feel Weight of Recession (February 6, 2009)
• T2Can's February 2009 Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Cuts & Expansions (February 1, 2009)
• Providence Journal: Rhode Island General Assembly Allows Global Medicaid Waiver to Go into Effect (January 15, 2009)
• IARF's Draft Resolution Prepared for the Illinois House of Representatives Regarding Additional FMAP and Allocation of Funding (January, 2009)
• Providence Journal: Rhode Island Legislature Will Not Move to Block Medicaid Global Waiver (January 15, 2009)
• Kaiser: The Role of Medicaid in State Economies (January 9, 2009)
• Kaiser: Rising Unemployment, Medicaid and the Uninsured (January 9, 2009)
• Kaiser: A Mid-FY 2009 Update on State Medicaid Issues in a Recession (January 9, 2009)
• Stateline: State of the States 2009: A Report on State Policy (January, 2009)
• Chattanooga Times: Tennessee May Drop Thousands from Medicaid Program Including Individuals with Disabilities (January 9, 2009)
• Kaiser: State Fiscal Conditions and Medicaid (January 8, 2009)
• Star-Ledger: New Jersey Legislators Propose Closing Five State Institutions (January 8, 2009)
• Dallas News: Texas Continues Outsourcing of Managed Care Despite Complaints (January 4, 2009)
• Indianapolis Star: Indiana State Health Plan May Hit Enrollment Cap (December 29, 2008)
• Washington Post: States Cut Medicaid Coverage Further (December 26, 2008)
• AP: New York Governor Wants Medicaid Expanded to More People (December 25, 2008)
• Houston Chronicle: Medicaid Coverage Extended for 34,000 Kids (December 23, 2008)
• RI Medicaid Trade-off Would Cut Nursing Home Services (December 20, 2008)
• Times Picayune: Louisiana’s Medicaid Revamp Clears Legislature (December 20, 2008)
• CBPP: Louisiana's Medicaid Waver Proposal- Is it the Right Fit for Louisiana? (December 17, 2008)
• MA Announces More Community Living Options For People With Developmental Disabilities (December 12, 2008)
• Providence Journal: RI Medicaid Accord Seen Near (December 9, 2008)
• T2Can's December 2008 Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Cuts & Expansions (December 4, 2008)
• CMS Final Rule Allowing States to Create Alternative Benefit Packages for Certain Medicaid Populations, Implementing Provisions of the DRA (December 3, 2008)
• StateLine: States Ask Feds for Help with Medicaid, SCHIP (November 26, 2008)
• Kaiser: Vermont's 'Choices for Care' Medicaid Long-Term Services Waiver: Progress and Challenges (November 17, 2008)
• St. Louis Dispatch: Illinois Settles Suit Over Housing for People With Disabilities (November 13, 2008)
• News-Leader: Health Care Providers in Missouri Blast New Mo-HealthNet Managed Care Program (November 11, 2008)
• The Advocate: Time is Running Out for Approval of Louisiana Medicaid Overhaul Plan (November 10, 2008)
• Pioneer Press: CMS Approves Minnesota Waiver to Continue SCHIP Coverage for Some Parents (November 7, 2008)
• Steamboat Today: Colorado Voters Reject Tax to Fund Supports for People with Disabilities (November 5, 2008)
• T2 CAN's November 1, 2008 MEDICAID WATCH: State Medicaid and Health Cuts & Expansions (November 1, 2008)
• Kaiser: State-by-State Health, Health Care and Medicaid Facts (November 2008)
• Kaiser: Medicaid Cost Containment Actions Taken by States FY08 (November 2008)
• Kaiser: State Fiscal Conditions and Medicaid Fact Sheet (November, 2008)
• OIG: Ohio Overpaid Medicaid Providers $18 Million for Long-Term Care from 1998-2005 (October 31, 2008)

• 31 States Sign Petition Seeking New Reimbursement Policy for Medicare and Medicaid Disability Coverage (October 31, 2008)

• USA Today: Economic Troubles Force States to Cut Medicaid (October 29, 2008)

• WV Medicaid Reforms Hardest on Children (October 27, 2008)

• AP: RI Medicaid Overhaul May Lower Elderly Services (October 27, 2008)

• Florida Medicaid Reform

  • Georgetown Univ.: Florida's Experience with Medicaid Reform: What Has Been Learned in the First Two Years? (October 27, 2008)

  • Kaiser: Florida Medicaid Reform Waiver: Early Findings and Current Status (October 27, 2008)

  • Florida Health News: AHCA Seeks Expansion of 'Medicaid Reform' to 20 counties (October 27, 2008)

  • Florida Health News: Doctors in Medicaid Reform Cite Roadblocks to Care (October 27, 2008)

• AP: Rhode Island Medicaid Overhaul May Lower Elderly Services (October 24, 2008)
• Kaiser: Recent Medicaid News in GA, IL, NC (October 15, 2008)
• Kaiser Health Affairs: Florida’s Medicaid Reform: Informed Consumer Choice? (October 2008)
• Louisiana Times-Picayune: State Hopes to Strike a Deal with Bush Administration to Overhaul Medicaid (October 10, 2008)
• Kaiser: Headed for a Crunch: An Update on Medicaid Spending, Coverage and Policy Heading into an Economic Downturn (October 1, 2008)
• HHS Review of Indiana Medicaid Rehabilitation Option Program Finds Overpayments of $23 million (September 30, 2008)
• Tennessee to Expand Home and Community Based Services Under TennCare Program (September 26, 2008)
• Institutionalized Medicaid Recipients in Florida Sue State Over Barriers to Receiving Home and Community Based Services (September 26, 2008)
• Tax Increase to Fund Services for the Developmentally Disables Will be on Colorado Ballot in November (September 26, 2008)

• T2Can's September 2008 Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Cuts & Expansions (September 23, 2008)

• NY Sun: State Recovers $269M in Medicaid Fraud, Waste (September 12, 2008)

• Washington Post: RI Seeks Limits on Medicaid Spending (September 12, 2008)

• Kaiser: CMS Official Expresses with Timeline, Scope of Texas Medicaid Overhaul Plan (September 12, 2008)

• Families USA: Report on West Virginia’s New Medicaid Program (September 12, 2008)

• Sacramento Bee: Court Rejects California’s Medi-Cal Cuts (September 12, 2008)

• N.Y. Wields Knife on Medicaid (September 12, 2008)

• Sacramento Bee: Medi-Cal Cuts Would Raise Other Health Costs (September 12, 2008)

• CBPP: Rhode Island’s Medicaid Proposal Would Put Beneficiaries at Risk and Undermine the Federal-State Partnership (September 12, 2008)

• Clarion Ledger: Legal Challenge Against MS Governor’s Medicaid Plan Intensifies (September 12, 2008)

• Rhode Island Medicaid Global Waiver (August 7, 2008)
  • Providence Journal: Medicaid waiver plan puts neediest at risk (August 7, 2008)
• T2Can's Medicaid Watch on State Level Eligibility (August 1, 2008)
• Families USA Report: State Medicaid Cuts (July 24, 2008)
• Families USA: State Medicaid Spending Calculator (July 24, 2008)
• The Enhanced Benefits Rewards Program: Is it changing the way Medicaid beneficiaries approach their health? (July 24, 2008)

• Mississippi Medicaid Amendment Plans (July 24, 2008)

• Draft Cuts to the Mississippi Medicaid Program (July 24, 2008)

• T2 CAN’s MEDICAID WATCH (July 1, 2008)

• Senate Letter to HHS Calling for Public Input on All Waivers (June 20, 2008)

• The Rhode Island Global Consumer Choice Compact Fact Sheet (June 6, 2008)

• Kaiser: New Data from CMS's Office of Actuary on Total Medicaid Spending Estimates by State from1995-2004 (May 6, 2008)

• T2 CAN’s May 1, 2008 MEDICAID WATCH (May 1, 2008)
• Kaiser Report: Tight State Budgets Will Cause Medicaid and SCHIP Fiscal Crisis (April 28, 2008)
• Fact Sheet on Rhode Island Proposed Superwaiver (April 22, 2008)
• Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Care Cuts and Expansions (April 2, 2008)

• Facing Deficits, Many States Are Imposing Cuts That Hurt Vulnerable Residents (March 13, 2008)

• Medicaid Cuts Have Hurt Clients, Providers Alike (March 11, 2008)

• GAO Finds HHS Did Not Ensure Medicaid Integrity nor Budget Neutrality in Approving Florida and Vermont 1115 Demonstration Waivers (March 11, 2008)

• MECEP Newsroom: Mainers Need More Than 'Average' Medicaid (March, 10, 2008)

• Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Care Cuts and Expansions (March 1, 2008)

• Insure Missouri-Too Little Too Late (March 7, 2008)

• CMS Regs Will Weaken Medicaid Unless Congress Acts Extends Moratoria (February 14, 2008)

• Rockefeller Introduces $12 Billion Medicaid FMAP/State Fiscal Relief Bill (February 6, 2008)

• Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Care Cuts and Expansions (February 1, 2008)

• Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Care Cuts and Expansions (December 7, 2007)

• Medicaid Pilots at One Year: How is the new Medicaid marketplace faring? (December 2007)

• State Fiscal Conditions and Medicaid (November 12, 2007)

• Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Cuts & Expansion (November 1, 2007)
• CMS Awards 16 States Transformation Grants (October 4, 2007)
• Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Care Cuts and Expansions (October 1, 2007)
• State Perspectives on Emerging Medicaid Long-Term Care (October 2007)
• Massachusetts Health Reform Tool Kit (July 2007)
• Consumer-Directed, Home and Community Services for Adults with Dementia (July 2007)
• Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Cuts & Expansions (July 2, 2007)
• NGA Letter Urge SCHIP Reauthorization and Flexibility (June 11, 2007)
• Alabama Becomes First State to Receive Approval for DRA Self-Directed Personal Assistances Services (May 24, 2007)
• Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Cuts & Expansions (May 1, 2007)
• Public Citizen Health Research Group Ranking of State Medicaid Programs (April 2007)
• Iowa First State to Use DRA HCBS Option in State Plan (April 5, 2007)
• Families USA Report on Missouri Medicaid Reform (March 2007)
• Medicaid Watch: State Medicaid and Health Cuts & Expansions (March 2, 2007)
• NGA Asks HHS to Recalculate State FY 2007 Medicaid Drug Clawback (NGA, February 12, 2007)
• Kaiser: Medicaid's Long Term Care Beneficiaries Analysis of Spending Patterns (November 2006)
• Medicaid: Strategies to Help States Address Increased Expenditures during Economic Downturns (GAO Highlights, October 2006)
• Medicaid Spending Hits Record Low (Kaiser Press Release, October 10, 2006)
• Low Medicaid Spending Growth Amid Rebounding State Revenues (Kaiser, October 10, 2006)
• Disability and Medicaid State Fact Sheets (2006)
• ANCOR Washington Insiders Club: Around the States (excerpts from weekly WICs updates) *MEMBERS ONLY*
• Improving Access to Benefits (NGA, August 2006)
• NGA Opposes Decrease in Medicaid Provider Taxes (June 27, 2006)
• The Fiscal State of the States (June 2006)
• Kaiser and Alliance for Health Reform Webcast Briefing on Massachusett Health plan (May 2006)
• Kaiser Health Cast on Mass. Plan Model (May 2006)
• Kentucky DRA State Plan Amendment (May 25, 2006)
• West Virginia DRA State Plan Amendment Fact Sheet (May 25, 2006)
• HHS Approves Kentucky Medicaid Reform (May 3, 2006)
• Kentucky Medicaid Reform Initiative Slides (May 3, 2006)
• HHS Approves West Virginia Medicaid Reform (May 3, 2006)
• New Kaiser State Health Facts on Models for Elderly HCBS Services and Individual Budgets (May 2, 2006)
• Kaiser Report on Vermont's Global Commitment Waiver: Implications for Medicaid Program (April 2006)
• Kaiser Commission Fact Sheet on New Massachusetts Health Reform Plan (April 2006)
• State of Massachusetts Presentation on Newly Enacted Health Care Reform (April 2006)
• NGA and State Auditors Newest Fiscal Survey of States (December 2005)
• Kaiser Fact Sheet on Florida's New Waiver Fundamentally Changing Medicaid (December 2005)
• NGA Letter to Congress on Medicaid and Reconciliation (December 5, 2005)
• Medicaid Federal Match Rate for FY 2007 and SCHIP Enhanced Rate (Federal Register, November 30, 2005)
• State-by-State Medicaid Fact Sheet (Kaiser, November 2005)
• Medicaid Directors Letter Opposing TCM in Budget Reconciliation (November 1, 2005)
• National Experts on Medicaid State Trends and Future (Kaiser Webcast, October 19, 2005)
• Kids, Medicaid and Quality of Care Webcast and Presentations (September 9, 2005)
• Medicaid Commission Adopts Recommendations to Cut $11 Billion in Medicaid (August 17, 2005)
• NGA Governors Statment to Commission
• South Carolina Plan To Replace Medicaid With Private Accounts (CBPP, August 10, 2005)
• National Academy for State Health Policy Medicaid Resource Center
• Impact of $10 Billion in Medicaid Cuts by States, Disability, Elderly, Children (Families USA, May 9, 2005)
• NGA Draft Proposal for Medicaid Reform (April, 2005)
• NGA and NCSL Proposals for Medicaid Cuts (Kaiser, May 9, 2005)
• View Kaiser Live Webcast Thursday, April 14th at 11:30 a.m. EDT: Gov. Mark Warner (D-VA), NGA Chair discusses proposals to alter the Medicaid program, the future of long-term care, and other state and federal health and social issues. Send questions for Gov. Warner in advance to conversations@kff.org (April 12, 2005)
• New State and Federal Medicaid Spending Data and More From Kaiser Family Foundationon statehealthfacts.org (KFF, statehalthfacts.org, April 2005)
• Medicaid Cost Containment Actions Taken by States, FY 2005 (Kaiser, April 2005)
• Is Missouri's Medicaid Program Out-of-Step and Inefficient? (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 5, 2005)
• NY Announces Section 1115 Medicaid Reform--Includes Shift to Community-based (March 16, 2005)
• NGA Medicaid Reform Principles Policy (revised February, 2005)
• Letter from Governor Vilsack (D-IA) to Iowa Congressional Delegation (February 7, 2005)
• Federal Medicaid Funds Lost by States Under Administration FY 2006 Proposal (Families USA, February 7, 2005)
• FamiliesUSA's Medicaid: Good Medicine For State Economies (May 2004)