Florida's Medicaid Budget: Why Are Costs Going Up?
July 2004
Authors: Joan Alker and Lisa Portelli
Published by: Winter Park Health Foundation
This issue brief examines Medicaid costs in Florida, exploring why costs have risen over the period of 2000-01 to 2004-05, how increases in Medicaid costs compare to increases in health care costs generally, and how Medicaid restructuring might impact these dynamics.
Download Florida's Medicaid Budget: Why Are Costs Going Up? (PDF) This issue brief is part of the Florida’s Health at Risk project, a series of educational briefs on issues impacting Florida’s families conducted by researchers at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute and funded by the Winter Park Health Foundation.