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Officials seek Medicaid relief

By Chad Adams

February 01, 2006

NCACC First Vice President Terry Garrison of Vance County and Wake County Manager David Cooke presented on Jan. 11 the county perspective on financing the state/federal Medicaid program to the House Select Committee on Health Care’s Medicaid Subcommittee.

North Carolina is the only state that requires counties to pay a fixed percentage (15 percent) of the non-federal Medicaid share, even though the state and federal governments make all decisions regarding eligibility, services and provider payments. The county share is estimated at $470 million for the 2005-06 fiscal year – a 78 percent increase since 2000 – and the General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division projects that total to reach $540 million for 2006-07.

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