Medicaid & Health Care
Reports / Fact Sheets / Analysis

Health Care Provider Taxes and Rates

This fact sheet identifies the sixteen health care provider taxes used as matching funds for the West Virginia Medicaid Program. In 2001, the state legislature phased out nine of the provider taxes over a ten year period. The current and future provider tax rates on certain providers is illustrated.  | Read PDF

Medicaid Matters: Part 1 - An Overview of the Medicaid Program in West Virginia

Your primer to how Medicaid works in West Virginia.  Medicaid is one of the most important health care programs in the state as one in five West Virginians receive health benefits directly through the program.  This paper describes Medicaid's basic structure, who receives benefits, what those benefits entail, and how enrollment and spending have changed over time. | Read PDF  (Powerpoint presentation handout)

West Virginia Missing Opportunity to Insure More Children:  WVCHIP Funding in the Year Ahead   Implications of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act (Full Report)

After last year’s bitter fight between the president and the Congress over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), the SCHIP Extension Act was passed to continue the program with sufficient funding through March 31, 2009.  We have been uncertain about the level of funding available for West Virginia under the Extension Act.  With the most recent publication of funding levels by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, it appears that West Virginia will have sufficient federal funding to continue and even expand the program.  
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Medicaid Matters:
Deciphering the Governor's FY 2009 Budget

What is Medicaid?  How do we pay for it?  Does the West Virginia Governor's recommended budget provide sufficient funds for Medicaid for FY 2009?  What factors are affecting the availability of funding for Medicaid?  Will West Virginia be able to manage Medicaid without increasing its funding?  The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy addresses these issues in a policy brief.  | Read PDF