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.
05/06/2025
This document, 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 6% provider tax safe harbor threshold on state-level federal Medicaid funding. Using data on hospital and nursing facility tax rates and net patient revenue, this analysis finds that eliminating the 6% provider tax threshold for hospitals and nursing facilities would put $83.7 billion of federal Medicaid funding at risk.
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03/25/2025
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
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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