MACFacts: Health Care Related Taxes In Medicaid

August 1, 2012
In August 2012, the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) released a report on financing the Medicaid program. The report discusses the shared responsibility of financing these programs by both the federal and state governments. MACPAC's report offers some clarity to the distribution of these health care related taxes between the federal share and the non-federal share and how this split affects tax-payers. The main categories of these federally imposed state taxes include: supplemental Medicaid payments for the classes of providers that pay the tax; increase or avert reductions in Medicaid rates . . .