Which States Terminate Rather Than Suspend Inmate Medicaid Benefits?

Federal law prohibits Medicaid federal financial participation (FFP) funding for services provided to an inmate of a public institution, which includes any correctional facility administered by local, state, federal, or private company under contract with a public corrections authority (see Section 1905(a)(A) of the Social Security Act). This policy is known as the “inmate exclusion” rule and directly parallels the “IMD exclusion” rule prohibiting use of federal funds to provide Medicaid services to adults, ages 21-64, residing in an institution of mental disease (IMD) (see What’s The Current Status Of IMDs?). Inmate exclusion applies both to . . .