Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Not Necessarily Medicaid relief
NC Counties not getting promised help
From the start, North Carolina required counties to pay 15% of the non-federal share of Medicaid. As state and federal expansions of the program became more onerous, counties sought relief from the growing part of their budgets over which they had no control. They thought they got this relief from the legislature in 2007, but some counties say they are facing higher Medicaid cost than projected and will get less relief than promised.