First MACPAC Report To Congress on Medicaid Issues
On March 15, 2011, the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) released its first Report to the Congress on Medicaid and CHIP. The report: provides an overview on the Medicaid and CHIP programs, their roles in the U.S. health care system, and the key policy and data issues to be addressed; describes the analytic framework that the Commission will use in future work on policy issues outlined in its statutory charge on access to care and Medicaid payment policy; examines factors for assessing access to care, evaluating payment policies, and identifying key data sources for policy analysis and program accountability; and introduces Medicaid and CHIP Program Statistics, MACStats, a compilation of national and state-specific program information on eligibility, benefits, and Medicaid spending.
