Medicaid: Information on Inmate Eligibility and Federal Costs for Allowable Services. GAO-14-752R

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the report in September 2014. It was conducted in response to a request in October 2013 by the Congressional House Energy & Commerce Committee to examine information on enrollment and federal Medicaid costs for state prison and jail inmates. The GAO conducted performance audit from March through September 2014 to compare Medicaid eligibility and spending on inmate off-site hospital care lasting 24 hours or longer. The comparison included information from a sample of states that expanded Medicaid and a sample of states that did not . . .