A study by the Kansas Health Policy Authority, a state agency, found Kansas’ share of Medicaid spending will drop by $33 million to $35 million when Medicaid expansion is fully implemented in 2014.
The first three years of the Medicaid expansion will be paid in full by the federal government, with no increase in cost to the state, but by 2020, Kansas’ costs would increase about $4 million.
Health reform expands Medicaid enrollment to all adults up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, or $14,958 for an individual or $30,429 for a family of four in current dollars.
Read the Wichita Eagle report on health reform.
