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Infographic: Medicaid Spending and Enrollment: Who Is Covered and What Does the Program Spend on Their Care This infographic illustrates that while the majority of people served by Medicaid are children and families, most Medicaid spending – two of every three dollars – goes to care for elderly enrollees and people with disabilities. A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act Decision This policy brief describes the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act and looks ahead to the implementation of health reform now that questions about the constitutionality of the law have been resolved. Who Benefits from the ACA Medicaid Expansion? This Quick Take explains how Medicaid will change and expand under the Affordable Care Act, and discusses how most of the newly eligible will be low-income adults. How is the Affordable Care Act Leading to Changes in Medicaid Today? This policy brief examines how states in every region have responded to five key opportunities available under the health reform law to help them prepare for the significant expansion of Medicaid in 2014. The Medicaid Medically Needy Program: Spending and Enrollment Update This brief examines Medicaid's medically needy program, which gives states the option to extend Medicaid eligibility to those with high medical expenses whose income exceeds the maximum threshold, but who would otherwise qualify. It provides updated enrollment and spending figures on the medically needy using data through federal fiscal year 2009.

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Increasing Medicaid Payments for Certain Primary Care Physicians in 2013 and 2014: A Primer on the Health Reform Provision and Final Rule -- December 2012

How Much Will Medicaid Physician Fees for Primary Care Rise in 2013? Evidence from a 2012 Survey of Medicaid Physician Fees -- December 2012

Washington's Managed FFS Demonstration to Integrate Care and Align Financing for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries -- December 2012

Massachusetts and Washington: Financial Alignment Demonstrations for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries Compared -- December 2012

Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment for People With Disabilities Under the Affordable Care Act: The Impact of CMS's March 23, 2012 Final Regulations -- December 2012

Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment Simplification, and Coordination under the Affordable Care Act: A Summary of CMS's March 23, 2012 Final Rule -- December 2012

The Medicaid Medically Needy Program: Spending and Enrollment Update -- December 2012

Medicaid Home and Community-Based Service Programs: 2009 Data Update -- December 2012

Establishing Health Insurance Exchanges: An Overview of State Efforts -- November 2012

Faces of the Medicaid Expansion: Experiences and Profiles of Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Coverage -- November 2012

This brief explains the main provisions of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ November 6, 2012 final rule, which provides the blueprint for implementation of the Medicaid primary care fee increase under health reform.

This brief presents 50-state data from the 2012 KCMU/Urban Institute Medicaid Physician Fee Survey. It presents data on how states compare in their 2012 Medicaid fee levels, how Medicaid fees compared to Medicare fees, and how Medicaid fees have changed over time.

This policy brief describes key aspects of Washington state's memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to test a managed fee-for-service (FFS) financial alignment model for beneficiaries who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, beginning on April 1, 2013.

This fact sheet compares five-year demonstrations in Massachusetts and Washington state to integrate care and align financing for people dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. The states finalized memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in fall 2012.

This brief summarizes Medicaid eligibility and benefits for people with disabilities today and explains how they will be affected by the ACA in light of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) March 23, 2012 final rule to implement the ACA provisions relating to Medicaid eligibility, enrollment simplification and coordination.

This brief provides a summary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) March 23, 2012 final rule, which is effective Jan. 1, 2014 and lays out procedures for states to implement the Medicaid expansion and the streamlined and integrated eligibility and enrollment system created under the Affordable Care Act.

This KCMU brief provides updated enrollment and spending figures on the Medicaid medically needy program, explains how individuals becomes eligible for the program, and offers key considerations for policy discussions.

This report presents a summary of the main trends to emerge from the latest expenditures and participant data for the three main Medicaid Home and Community-Based Service programs: optional 1915 (the letter "c") HCBS waivers; the mandatory home health benefit; and the optional state plan personal care services benefit.

This issue brief examines states' progress in setting up the state-based health insurance exchanges through which millions of Americans are expected to purchase coverage under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) beginning in 2014.

Two papers, based on focus groups and interviews conducted in Cincinnati, Houston, Las Vegas and Tampa with uninsured adults, provide insight into how state decisions to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are likely to impact people. The papers include a brief on key themes from the focus groups and ten individual profiles of selected focus group participants.

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