Medicaid

Medicaid Data Analysis:

The Center for Health Policy and the Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis at the University of Missouri have developed a collaborative partnership with the Missouri Department of Social Services to provide ongoing research and analysis of Medicaid improvement issues using claims-based modeling. Research teams, under direction of the Division of Medical Services, will provide analyses of recent program and policy changes, such as the implementation of the Chronic Care Improvement Program, to evaluate the effects on program costs and quality of care for Medicaid recipients.

 

The Missouri Medicaid
Chartbook: A graphical
profile

Download the Missouri Medicaid Chartbook

The Center for Health Policy recently joined efforts to form the Medicaid Workgroup at the University of Missouri. This research group was convened to provide an up-to-date look at recent trends in the Missouri Medicaid Program.

The Workgroup produced a chartbook detailing Medicaid enrollment and expenditure data from 1998 to 2005.

This report provides a graphical summary of the Missouri Medicaid program. It is intended to provide background information of the policy issues being considered by the Missouri Medicaid Reform Commission. The report was compiled by a group of researchers from several centers at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The first section provides a national summary of Medicaid allowing for comparison among other states.The final two sections provide an overview of trends within the Missouri Medicaid program. The types of health care services, expenditure levels, and categories of participants are presented. Health care service types are summarized with a focus on overall expenditure levels. Participants are summarized into general enrollment groups: Children, Adults, Blind and Disabled, Elderly, and Other. The interrelationships among services, expenditures and participants are explored using current data and historical trends. County level maps display these patterns for the state. Estimates of the effect of recent changes to the Missouri Medicaid Program are provided.

The report uses the most current summary information available and many FY2005 charts are included. However, for some graphics, it was necessary to use older data to achieve a consistent frame of reference. Some Medicaid service types, particularly managed care, are confounded because they include portions of other specific services, such as physician services that also are reported independently. Substantial Medicaid claims data containing additional information about the characteristics of participants, services, and expenditures are being made available for summarization and analyses. We anticipate extending the description of the Missouri Medicaid program with future analyses of these more detailed data.