https://www.denvergazette.com/2026/02/19/colorado-medicaid-spending-doubled-over-the-past-decade-study-finds/
Feb 20, 2026 - Common Sense Institute study: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy Financing spending hit $16 billion, while Medicaid enrollment flat
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https://www.kff.org/medicaid/states-management-of-medicaid-home-care-spending-ahead-of-h-r-1-effects/
Nov 20, 2025 - Using data from the 23rd KFF survey of officials administering Medicaid home care programs, this issue brief describes the mechanisms states are currently...
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https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/budget-deal-increases-state-share-medicaid-spending-by-13-percent/
Jan 19, 2024 - Albany's newly enacted budget appears to increase the state share of Medicaid spending by $4.4 billion or 14 percent, continuing a trend of explosive...
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https://www.kff.org/medicaid/allocating-cbos-estimates-of-federal-medicaid-spending-reductions-across-the-states-enacted-reconciliation-package/
Dec 5, 2025 - This analysis allocates the CBO’s estimated reduction in federal spending in the enacted reconciliation package across states based on KFF’s state-level...
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/dr-oz-states-spending-medicaid-funds-on-illegal-immigrants-worse-than-we-thought-5971056?cmt=1
Jan 15, 2026 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is withholding $300 million from California over alleged unlawful Medicaid spending.
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https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-coverage-of-and-spending-on-glp-1s/
Jan 16, 2026 - This brief discusses the current landscape of Medicaid GLP-1 coverage and examines recent trends in Medicaid prescriptions and gross spending on GLP-1s.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/25/new-audit-reveals-shady-way-biden-increased-medicaid-spending/
Sep 25, 2025 - The Biden administration’s actions demonstrate Democrats' desire to turn Medicaid into a vehicle for an all-encompassing government.
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https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cms-cmmi-medicaid-drug-price-model-most-favored-nation/805003/
Under the model, set to start next year, the CMS will negotiate lower prices for Medicaid programs linked to those paid in select other countries.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3910405/fiscal-fallout-nys-biggest-budget-item-medicaid-spending-outpaces-all-others/
Dec 8, 2025 - New York spends an additional $700 per resident on Medicaid, a rate of growth that far exceeds that of any other program in its budget.
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https://www.kff.org/medicaid/recent-trends-in-medicaid-outpatient-prescription-drugs-and-spending/
Aug 9, 2025 - This issue brief describes recent trends in the number of Medicaid outpatient prescriptions and the spending on those drugs and examines how the pandemic and...
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https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-medicaid-officials-project-flat-enrollment-post-unwinding-but-increased-spending-and-budget-pressures-as-states-prepare-for-impact-of-federal-medicaid-policy-changes/
Nov 14, 2025 - As states completed the “unwinding” of pandemic-era continuous coverage, Medicaid enrollment fell 7.6% in FY 2025 and is expected to be largely flat in FY...
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