Publications

Below is a listing of select Hilltop publications and presentations. You can search by type, topic, date, and/or title. The search function searches for key words in both the title and the publication summary. Click on the publication’s title below to go to its summary.

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03/25/2025

Impact of Removing the Medicaid FMAP Floor on Federal Funding for Home and Community-Based ID/DD Services

This one-pager, written by Hilltop Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, Senior Data Scientist Leigh Goetschius, Director of Aging & Disability Studies Christin Diehl, and Interim Executive Director Alice Middleton, quantifies the impact of removing the 50% Medicaid Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) floor on federal spending on Medicaid-funded home and community-based intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) services in states. The one-pager estimates the federal funding decreases overall and for each of the ten states that would be the most impacted.

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03/04/2025

Impact of Removing the Medicaid FMAP Floor on Federal Medicaid Funding

This one-pager, written by Hilltop Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, Senior Data Scientist Leigh Goetschius, and Interim Executive Director Alice Middleton, quantifies the impact of removing the 50% Medicaid Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) floor on the federal Medicaid funding to states. The one-pager estimates the federal funding decreases overall and for each of the ten states that would be the most impacted.

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03/03/2025

Reporting Requirements Matter (A Lot): Evidence from Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirements

Hilltop Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, Senior Director of Health Reform Studies Laura Spicer, and Interim Executive Director Alice Middleton discuss their re-examination of 2018-2019 enrollment data from Arkansas Works (the state’s Medicaid work requirement program) in this article published in the Health Affairs Forefront series.

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