MACPAC’s March 2022 Report to Congress on Medicaid and CHIP contains three chapters of interest to Congress: (1) transitioning Medicaid beneficiaries out of institutions and back into the community under the Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration program, (2) improving access to vaccines and vaccination rates for adults enrolled in Medicaid, and (3) our statutorily required review of hospital payment policy for the nation’s safety-net hospitals.
- Chapter 1 fulfills a congressionally mandated study on MFP, which has provided participating states with flexibility and enhanced funding to support more than 100,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in transitioning from institutional settings back into the community.
- Chapter 2 focuses on vaccine access for adults enrolled in Medicaid. Adult Medicaid beneficiaries have lower vaccination rates than those covered by private insurance across nearly all vaccines, in large part due to limited coverage.
- Chapter 3 fulfills MACPAC’s annual, statutorily mandated obligation to report on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments to states for payments to hospitals that serve a high proportion of Medicaid beneficiaries and other low-income patients.
