Continuing our budget breakdown series, the following are the fast facts about Medicaid provisions found in the state’s new budget for FY2018.

$9.507 billion has been allocated to Medicaid funding for FY2018, including federal matching funds and intergovernmental transfers, in the recently-passed SB6 budget. The Hospital Provider Fund and County Provider Trust provide $3.1 billion and $2.5 billion of that total, although the Drug Rebate Fund also brought in $2.4 billion this year.