From it's first issue brief published in spring 1977, the Northeast Midwest Institute has been keeping it's eye and providing on the Medicaid cost and reimbursement formula issues that have been so heavily impacting the state government budgets since the Medicaid program first launched after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments of 1965 into law.
A new Northeast-Midwest Institute issue brief released Monday addresses increased Medicaid costs and argues for needed increases in federal unemployment benefits, analyzing data presented in a Medicaid Policy Center report presented in July. The issue brief is titled "New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Report Links Higher Medicaid Costs to Continuation of Federal Unemployment Benefits," and is authored by NEMWI Senior Fellow I. Sue Andersen. Although the Medicaid Policy Center's paper only speaks to New Jersey's situation, Ms. Andersen points out that it's findings also apply to all 18 states in the NEMW region.
The new NEMWI issue brief finds that the U.S. House-passed "HEROES Act" would help to address this looming aspect of the Greater Recession-driven fiscal crisis facing the states by increasing federal reimbursement of state Medicaid expenses.
The NJ Medicaid Policy Center report is available here.
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