[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 226 (Monday, November 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62613-62615]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-30832]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; 
Federal Matching Shares for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, 
Medicaid, Aid to Needy Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons and for the New 
Children's Health Insurance Programs for October 1, 1998 Through 
September 30, 1999

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Medical Assistance Percentage and Enhanced Federal 
Medical Assistance Percentages for Fiscal Year 1999 have been 
calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These 
percentages will be effective from October 1, 1998 through September 
30, 1999. This notice announces the calculated ``Federal Medical 
Assistance Percentages'' and ``Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance 
Percentages'' that we will use in determining the amount of Federal 
matching in State medical and medical insurance expenditures and for 
the annual reconciliation of contingency funds under Title IV-A. The 
table gives figures for each of the 50 States, the District of 
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and 
the Northern Mariana Islands. Programs under title XIX of the Act exist 
in each jurisdiction; programs under titles I, X, and XIV operate only 
in Guam and the Virgin Islands; while a program under title XVI (AABD) 
operates only in Puerto Rico. Programs under title XXI are new, 
beginning in 1998. The percentages in this notice apply to State 
expenditures for assistance payments, medical services and medical 
insurance services (except family planning which is subject to a higher 
matching rate). The statute provides separately for Federal matching of 
administrative costs.
    Sections 1905(b) and 2105(b) of the Act, as revised by section 9528 
of Pub. L. 99-272, require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to publish these percentages each year. The Secretary is to figure the 
percentages, by formulas in sections 1905(b) and 2105(b) of the Act, 
from the Department of Commerce's statistics of average income per 
person in each State and in the Nation as a whole. The percentages are 
within upper and lower limits given in those two sections of the Act. 
The statute specifies the percentages to be applied to Puerto Rico, the 
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
    The ``Federal percentages,'' for residual payments under the old 
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, will no longer 
be published. Anyone who needs these values may call the contact person 
named below and receive them. If a sufficient number of persons call, 
we may publish them again beginning in 2000.
    The ``Federal medical assistance percentages'' are for Medicaid. 
States may claim at the Federal medical assistance percentage without 
regard to any maximum on the dollar amounts per recipient which may be 
counted under paragraph (2) of sections 3(a), 1003(a), and 1403(a) of 
the Act. They will also be used for the annual reconciliation of any 
Contingency funds received under the Temporary Assistance for Needy 
Families program.

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    The ``Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages'' are for use 
in the new Children's Health Insurance Program under Title XXI, and for 
some or all of children's medical assistance under the new Medicaid 
sections 1905(u)(2) and 1905(u)(3).

DATES: The percentages listed will be effective for each of the 4 
quarter-year periods in the period beginning October 1, 1998 and ending 
September 30, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Gene Moyer, Office of Health 
Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 
Room 442E Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW., 
Washington, DC 20201, Telephone (202) 690-7861.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.560--
Assistance Payments--Maintenance Assistance (State Aid); 93.778--
Medical Assistance Program; Children's Health Insurance Programs--
not yet added)

    Dated: November 17, 1997.
Donna E. Shalala,
Secretary of Health and Human Services.

   Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical  
  Assistance Percentages, Effective October 1, 1998-September 30, 1996  
                           [Fiscal year 1999]                           
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                                                             Enhanced   
                                              Federal         Federal   
                  State                       Medical         Medical   
                                            Assistance      Assistance  
                                            percentages     percentages 
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Alabama.................................           69.27           78.49
Alaska..................................           59.80        ** 71.86
American Samoa..........................           50.00         * 65.00
Arizona.................................           65.50           75.85
Arkansas................................           72.96           81.07
California..............................           51.55           66.09
Colorado................................           50.59           65.42
Connecticut.............................           50.00           65.00
Delaware................................           50.00           65.00
District of Columbia....................           70.00           79.00
Florida.................................           55.82           69.07
Georgia.................................           60.47           72.33
Guam....................................           50.00         * 65.00
Hawaii..................................           50.00           65.00
Idaho...................................           69.85           78.89
Illinois................................           50.00           65.00
Indiana.................................           61.01           72.71
Iowa....................................           63.32           74.32
Kansas..................................           60.05           72.03
Kentucky................................           70.53           79.37
Louisiana...............................           70.37           79.26
Maine...................................           66.40           76.48
Maryland................................           50.00           65.00
Massachusetts...........................           50.00           65.00
Michigan................................           52.72           66.91
Minnesota...............................           51.50           66.05
Mississippi.............................           76.78           83.75
Missouri................................           60.24           72.17
Montana.................................           71.73           80.21
Nebraska................................           61.46           73.02
Nevada..................................           50.00           65.00
New Hampshire...........................           50.00           65.00
New Jersey..............................           50.00           65.00
New Mexico..............................           72.98           81.09
New York................................           50.00           65.00
North Carolina..........................           63.07           74.15
North Dakota............................           69.94           78.96
Northern Mariana Islands................           50.00         * 65.00
Ohio....................................           58.26           70.78
Oklahoma................................           70.84           79.59
Oregon..................................           60.55           72.38
Pennsylvania............................           53.77           67.64
Puerto Rico.............................           50.00         * 65.00
Rhode Island............................           54.05           67.83
South Carolina..........................           69.85           78.89
South Dakota............................           68.16           77.71
Tennessee...............................           63.09           74.16
Texas...................................           62.45           73.72
Utah....................................           71.78           80.25
Vermont.................................           61.97           73.38
Virgin Islands..........................           50.00         * 65.00
Virginia................................           51.60           66.12
Washington..............................           52.50           66.75
West Virginia...........................           74.47           82.13
Wisconsin...............................           58.85           71.20

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Wyoming.................................           64.08           74.86
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* For purposes of section 1118 of the Social Security Act, the          
  percentage used under titles I, X, XIV, and XVI and Part A of title IV
  will be 75 per centrum.                                               
** For 1998, 1999, and 2000, the values in the table were set for state 
  plans under Titles XIX and XXI and for capitation payments and DSH    
  allotments under those titles. For other purposes, the percentage for 
  Alaska is 52.26                                                       

[FR Doc. 97-30832 Filed 11-21-97; 8:45 am]
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