What Could A Waiver To Restructure Medicaid Mean For Florida?
April 2004
Authors: Joan Alker
Published by: Winter Park Health Foundation
Florida’s Medicaid program provides health care coverage and services to over two million state residents and is the single largest source of federal money for the state. This issue brief highlights that any major changes to the way Medicaid is financed could have serious implications for Medicaid beneficiaries, providers, and the state’s health care system as a whole. It also specifically examines the implications of a possible cap on the amount of federal funding available for Florida’s Medicaid program.
Download report (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.