Arkansas DHS Estimated Medicaid-Related Impact Of The ACA With Expansion

November 13, 2012
This document is an image of a spreadsheet prepared by the Arkansas Department of Human Services showing its assumptions and the estimated impact of expanding Medicaid eligibility to low-income uninsured adults earning 138% of the federal poverty line. The document reports the state's estimate of the number of newly eligible enrollees and the number of new enrollees that would qualify for Medicaid under an existing eligibility category. Overall, the state anticipates that 250,000 new Medicaid beneficiaries will enroll, with 215,000 eligible under the expansion, and another 35,000 eligible under existing categories. About . . .