Mississippi Long Term Care Cost Sees Dramatic Increase

Long-term care represents 32.1 percent of total Medicaid spending according to a recent report. As costs rise, the program is raising serious budget problems for numerous states, including Mississippi.

Total Medicaid expenditures for long-term care increased 3.8 percent in 2008 reaching a total of $106.4 billion. Medicaid is a federal/state partnership to provide health care services to the nation's poor.  In Mississippi, the 3/4 of the cost of the program is paid with Federal dollars. 

Institutional long-term care spending by the Medicaid program increased 2.9 percent in fiscal year 20908 to $61.0 billion according to the recent report issued by Thomson Reuters. Medicaid nursing home expenditures increased 4.1 percent to $49 billion.

The largest total Medicaid expenditures for long-term care services. The total expenditures exceeded $18.4 billion.  Mississippi saw spending for nursing home care increase by 86.1 percent, the highest rise in the nation. 

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