Medicaid Analytics Fact Sheet: Understanding The Needs And Opportunities

In September 2014, the Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program (IAP) released a Medicaid fact sheet in support of state efforts to accelerate innovation in Medicaid by offering new tools and guidance, technical resources such as data analytics, metrics development, and rapid cycle evaluation that states can use to advance their work. The fact sheet includes brief assessments of basic trends in Medicaid; who is served by Medicaid; clinical issues for Medicaid beneficiaries; and data to show how spending for Medicaid is concentrated among a small group of beneficiaries . . .