[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 231 (Friday, November 30, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59790-59793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-29855]


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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 Medicaid, the State Children's Health 
Insurance Program, and Aid to Needy, Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons 
for October 1, 2002 Through September 30, 2003

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DHHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced 
Federal Medical Assistance Percentages for Fiscal Year 2003 have been 
calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These 
percentages will be effective from October 1, 2002 through September 
30, 2003. 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 for State medical assistance (Medicaid) and State Children's 
Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expenditures, and Foster Care 
Maintenance and Adoption Assistance payments. 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 began functioning in fiscal year 1998. 
The percentages in this notice apply to State expenditures for 
assistance payments, most medical services and

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medical insurance services. The statute provides separately for Federal 
matching of administrative costs.
    Sections 1905(b) 1101(a)(8)(B) of the Act require the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services to publish the Federal medical assistance 
percentages each year. The Secretary is to figure the percentages, by 
formulas in sections 1905(b) and 1101(a)(8)(B), 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 the upper and lower 
limits given in those two sections of the Act. The statute specifies 
the percentages to be applied to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 
the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana 
Islands. A provision in the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits 
Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 modified the formula to 
calculate the percentages to be applied to Alaska only for fiscal years 
2001 through 2005.
    The ``Federal Medical Assistance Percentages'' are for Medicaid.
    The ``Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages'' are for use 
in the State Children's Health Insurance Program under Title XXI, and 
in the Medicaid program for certain children for expenditures for 
medical assistance described in sections 1905(u)(2) and 1905(u)(3). 
There is no specific requirement to publish these percentages. We 
include them in this notice for the convenience of the States.

EFFECTIVE DATES: The percentages listed will be effective for each of 
the 4 quarter-year periods in the period beginning October 1, 2002 and 
ending September 30, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adelle Simmons or Robert Stewart, 
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, (202) 690-6870.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.563--Child 
Support Enforcement; 93.658--Foster Care Title IV-E; 93.659--
Adoption Assistance; 93.778--Medical Assistance Program; 93.767--
State Children's Health Insurance Program)

    Dated: November 28, 2001.
Tommy G. Thompson,
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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