The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages for Fiscal Year 2003

[Federal Register: November 30, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 231)]

[Notices]

[Page 59790-59793]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and Aid to Needy, Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons for October 1, 2002 Through September 30, 2003

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DHHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages for Fiscal Year 2003 have been calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1, 2002 through September 30, 2003. This notice announces the calculated ``Federal Medical Assistance Percentages'' and ``Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages'' that we will use in determining the amount of Federal matching for State medical assistance (Medicaid) and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expenditures, and Foster Care Maintenance and Adoption Assistance payments. The table gives figures for each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Programs under title XIX of the Act exist in each jurisdiction; programs under titles I, X, and XIV operate only in Guam and the Virgin Islands; while a program under title XVI (AABD) operates only in Puerto Rico. Programs under title XXI began functioning in fiscal year 1998.

The percentages in this notice apply to State expenditures for assistance payments, most medical services and medical insurance services. The statute provides separately for Federal matching of administrative costs.

Sections 1905(b) 1101(a)(8)(B) of the Act require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to publish the Federal medical assistance percentages each year. The Secretary is to figure the percentages, by formulas in sections 1905(b) and 1101(a)(8)(B), from the Department of Commerce's statistics of average income per person in each State and in the Nation as a whole. The percentages are within the upper and lower limits given in those two sections of the Act. The statute specifies the percentages to be applied to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. A provision in the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 modified the formula to calculate the percentages to be applied to Alaska only for fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

The ``Federal Medical Assistance Percentages'' are for Medicaid.

The ``Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages'' are for use in the State Children's Health Insurance Program under Title XXI, and in the Medicaid program for certain children for expenditures for medical assistance described in sections 1905(u)(2) and 1905(u)(3). There is no specific requirement to publish these percentages. We include them in this notice for the convenience of the States.

EFFECTIVE DATES: The percentages listed will be effective for each of the 4 quarter-year periods in the period beginning October 1, 2002 and ending September 30, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adelle Simmons or Robert Stewart, Office of Health Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Room 442E--Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201, (202) 690-6870.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.563--Child Support Enforcement; 93.658--Foster Care Title IV-E; 93.659-- Adoption Assistance; 93.778--Medical Assistance Program; 93.767-- State Children's Health Insurance Program)

Dated: November 28, 2001.

Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages, Effective October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2003 (Fiscal Year 2003)
State	Federal Medical	Enhanced
	Assistance	Federal Medical
	Percentages	Assistance
		Percentages

Alabama.....................................................	70.60	79.42
Alaska**........................................................	58.27	70.79
American Samoa*.......................................	50.00	65.00
Arizona.......................................................	67.25	77.08
Arkansas....................................................	74.28	82.00

California....................................................	50.00	65.00
Colorado.....................................................	50.00	65.00
Connecticut.................................................	50.00	65.00
Delaware....................................................	50.00	65.00
District of Columbia**.................................	70.00	79.00

Florida........................................................	58.83	71.18
Georgia.......................................................	59.60	71.72
Guam*........................................................	50.00	65.00
Hawaii.........................................................	58.77	71.14
Idaho..........................................................	70.96	79.67

Illinois.........................................................	50.00	65.00
Indiana........................................................	61.97	73.38
Iowa............................................................	63.50	74.45
Kansas.......................................................	60.15	72.11
Kentucky....................................................	69.89	78.92

Louisiana....................................................	71.28	79.90
Maine..........................................................	66.22	76.35
Maryland.....................................................	50.00	65.00
Massachusetts...........................................	50.00	65.00
Michigan.....................................................	55.42	68.79

Minnesota...................................................	50.00	65.00
Mississippi..................................................	76.62	83.63
Missouri......................................................	61.23	72.86
Montana.....................................................	72.96	81.07
Nebraska....................................................	59.52	71.66

Nevada.......................................................	52.39	66.67
New Hampshire..........................................	50.00	65.00
New Jersey.................................................	50.00	65.00
New Mexico...............................................	74.56	82.19
New York...................................................	50.00	65.00

North Carolina............................................	62.56	73.79
North Dakota..............................................	68.36	77.85
Northern Mariana Islands*..........................	50.00	65.00
Ohio..............................................................	58.83	71.18
Oklahoma.....................................................	70.56	79.39
Oregon..........................................................	60.16	72.11

Pennsylvania..............................................	54.69	68.28
Puerto Rico*...............................................	50.00	65.00
Rhode Island..............................................	55.40	68.78
South Carolina...........................................	69.81	78.87
South Dakota..............................................	65.29	75.70

Tennessee.................................................	64.59	75.21
Texas.........................................................	59.99	71.99
Utah...........................................................	71.24	79.87
Vermont......................................................	62.41	73.69
Virgin Islands*............................................	50.00	65.00

Virginia.......................................................	50.53	65.37
Washington................................................	50.00	65.00
West Virginia..............................................	75.04	82.53
Wisconsin...................................................	58.43	70.90
Wyoming....................................................	61.32	72.92

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* For purposes of section 1118 of the Social Security Act, the percentage used under titles I, X, XIV, and XVI and Part A of title IV will be 75 per centum.

** The values for Alaska and the District of Columbia in the table were set for the state plan under titles XIX and XXI and for capitation payments and DSH allotments under those titles. For other purposes, including programs remaining in Title IV of the Act, the percentage for Alaska is 53.99 and for D.C. is 50.00.

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