Health Reform's Impact on Medicaid

Over the next decade, the American healthcare system will expend an estimated $34 trillion. The new federally enacted reform is projected to cost $940 billion over that same 10 years and add millions of people to public and private insurance programs. Medicaid agencies will be at the heart of making health reform a success.

This paper briefly examines the content of the reform law, the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act and Reconciliation Act (Affordable Care Act), discusses what it means to Medicaid agencies, and the role technology and other services can play in supporting the necessary changes.