Rhode Island’s Global Medicaid Waiver Saves State $100 Million

Rhode Island’s Global Medicaid Waiver saved the state about $100 million on its Medicaid spending in fiscal year 2010, according to Gary D. Alexander, the state’s former secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) and current acting secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare. Rhode Island is the only state with this type of waiver. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the waiver, officially called the Rhode Island Global Consumer Choice Compact, in January 2009; it runs through 2013. The five-year waiver caps aggregate Medicaid spending through 2013 . . .