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Medicaid spending variation

Variation in Medicaid spending per enrollee across US states

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Jan 26, 2026
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fraud in the state of minnesota

The last several years of reporting and official audits show wrestled with widespread fraud across multiple social‑services programs — from pandemic-era school meals to and behavioral‑health grants — ...

Jan 15, 2026
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Medical billing fraud by state

Medical billing fraud is a national problem with billions lost annually to improper documentation, coding errors, and deliberate false claims, but public data rarely aggregates reliable, comparable fr...

Jan 15, 2026
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How do Medicaid and Medicare payments by state change the federal balance‑of‑payments picture?

Medicaid operates as a joint federal–state program in which the federal government matches a large and variable share of state Medicaid spending, so shifts in state payments or enrollment rapidly chan...

Jan 23, 2026

How do different states count VA pension toward Medicaid eligibility and how might that change with the 2026 COLA?

Most states treat the Basic or Survivors portion of a pension as countable income for eligibility, while the and Housebound supplements are frequently excluded—creating state-by-state patchworks that ...

Jan 9, 2026

How does household size affect Obamacare eligibility and subsidy amounts for a two-person household?

Household size directly changes the federal poverty level (FPL) threshold used to determine both Marketplace eligibility and the size of premium tax credits, so a two-person household faces a differen...

Jan 8, 2026

How does federal funding per capita differ across US states?

Federal funding per capita varies widely across the United States depending on the measure used — direct federal grants, total federal transfers, or “net” receipts after subtracting federal taxes — wi...