Medicaid in Context: Key Statistics and Trends

This session is the first part of our two-part presentation on Medicaid key statistics, trends, and financing. In this session, MACPAC highlighted trends in enrollment, spending, and utilization based on the most recent and complete data available. This session focused on demographic characteristics of Medicaid enrollees, an overview of Medicaid enrollment and spending with comparisons to other payers, and Medicaid coverage of key services such as long-term services and supports and maternity care. Overall, we found that Medicaid provides health coverage to many low-income groups, including families, seniors, and people with disabilities, and while Medicaid spending has grown, it has remained lower than private insurance and Medicare.