The Impact of Medicaid Adoption of the Medicare Fee Schedule
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In this article, the authors simulate the effects on Federal and State Medicaid expenditures of increasing Medicaid fees to Medicare fee schedule (MFS) levels. Strict adoption of the MFS by the States would increase total Medicaid spending by approximately 4 percent, $2.5 to $2.9 billion. Because Medicaid fees vary across States, so does the impact of adopting the MFS. Medicaid spending would increase significantly in some wealthy States with large Medicaid populations and in a few small, relatively poor States. Some States currently pay more than the MFS for obstetrical services. If these fees continued at higher levels for obstetrical care, total Medicaid spending would increase by $3.5 to $4.0 billion.
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