Medicaid: Demographics And Service Usage Of Certain High-Expenditure Beneficiaries

In February 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an analytical report (GAO-14-176) examining the demographics and service usage of high-expenditure Medicaid-only beneficiaries. The report considers (1) states’ spending on them compared with all other Medicaid beneficiaries; (2) their key characteristics; and (3) their service usage compared with all other Medicaid-only beneficiaries. GAO analyzed beneficiary and expenditure data from the Medicaid Statistical Information System Annual Person Summary File for 2009, the most recent year available at the time GAO conducted its work. GAO defined high-expenditure beneficiaries as those with total expenditures in the top . . .