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Federal Register: November 30, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 229)]
[Notices]
[Page 71856-71857]
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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, 2006 Through September 30, 2007
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 2007 have been
calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These
percentages will be effective from October 1, 2006 through September
30, 2007. 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 Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families (TANF) Contingency Funds, the Federal share of Child
Support Enforcement collections, Child Care Mandatory and Matching
Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund, Foster Care Title IV-E
Maintenance payments, 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 Commonwealth of
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 (Aid to
the Aged, Blind, or Disabled) operates only in Puerto Rico. Programs
under title XXI began operating in fiscal year 1998. The percentages in
this notice apply to State expenditures for most medical services and
medical insurance services, and assistance payments for certain social
services. The statute provides separately for Federal matching of
administrative costs.
Sections 1905(b) and 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 calculate the percentages,
using 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 for the Nation as a whole. The percentages are within
the upper and lower limits given in section 1905(b) of the Act. The
percentages to be applied to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands
are specified in statute, and thus are not based on the statutory
formula that determines the percentages for the 50 states.
The ``Federal Medical Assistance Percentages'' are for Medicaid. Section 1905(b) of the Act specifies the formula for calculating
Federal Medical Assistance Percentages as follows:
``Federal medical assistance percentage'' for any State shall be
100 per centum less the State percentage; and the State percentage
shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 45 per centum
as the square of the per capita income of such State bears to the
square of the per capita income of the continental United States
(including Alaska) and Hawaii; except that (1) the Federal medical
assistance percentage shall in no case be less than 50 per centum or
more than 83 per centum, (2) the Federal medical assistance
percentage for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern
Mariana Islands, and American Samoa shall be 50 per centum. Section 4725 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 amended section
1905(b) to provide that the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage for
the District of Columbia for purposes of titles XIX and XXI shall be 70
percent. For the District of Columbia, we note under the table of
Federal Medical Assistance Percentages the rate that applies in certain
other programs calculated using the formula otherwise applicable, and
the rate that applies in certain other programs pursuant to section
1118 of the Social Security Act.
Section 2105(b) of the Act specifies the formula for calculating
the Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages as follows:
The ``enhanced FMAP'', for a State for a fiscal year, is equal
to the Federal medical assistance percentage (as defined in the
first sentence of section 1905(b)) for the State increased by a
number of percentage points equal to 30 percent of the number of
percentage points by which (1) such Federal medical assistance
percentage for the State, is less than (2) 100 percent; but in no
case shall the enhanced FMAP for a State exceed 85 percent.
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) of
the Act. There is no specific requirement to publish the Enhanced
Federal Medical Assistance Percentages. We include them in this notice
for the convenience of the States.
DATES: The percentages listed will be effective for each of the 4
quarter-year periods in the period beginning October 1, 2006 and ending September 30, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Bloniarz or Robert Stewart,
Office of Health Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning
and Evaluation, Room 447D--Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201, (202) 690-6870.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.558: TANF
Contingency Funds; 93.563: Child Support Enforcement; 93-596: Child
Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development
Fund; 93.658: Foster Care Title IV-E; 93.659: Adoption Assistance;
93.769: Ticket-to-Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (TWWIIA)
Demonstrations to Maintain Independence and Employment; 93.778:
Medical Assistance Program; 93.767: State Children's Health
Insurance Program)
Dated: November 22, 2005.
Michael O. Leavitt,
Secretary.
BILLING CODE 4120-03-P
Federal medical assistance percentages and enhanced Federal
medical assistance percentages,
Effective October 1, 2006-September 30, 2007 (Fiscal year 2007)
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State Federal Medical Enhanced
Assistance Federal Medical
Percentages Assistance
Percentages
______________________________________________________________________ Alabama 68.85 78.20 Alaska 51.07 65.75 American Samoa* 50.00 65.00 Arizona 66.47 76.53 Arkansas 73.37 81.36 California 50.00 65.00 Colorado 50.00 65.00 Connecticut 50.00 65.00 Delaware 50.00 65.00 District of Columbia** 70.00 79.00 Florida 58.76 71.13 Georgia 61.97 73.38 Guam* 50.00 65.00 Hawaii 57.55 70.29 Idaho 70.36 79.25 Illinois 50.00 65.00 Indiana 62.61 73.83 Iowa 61.98 73.39 Kansas 60.25 72.18 Kentucky 69.58 78.71 Louisiana 69.69 78.78 Maine 63.27 74.29 Maryland 50.00 65.00 Massachusetts 50.00 65.00 Michigan 56.38 69.47 Minnesota 50.00 65.00 Mississippi 75.89 83.12 Missouri 61.60 73.12 Montana 69.11 78.38 Nebraska 57.93 70.55 Nevada 53.93 67.75 New Hampshire 50.00 65.00 New Jersey 50.00 65.00 New Mexico 71.93 80.35 New York 50.00 65.00 North Carolina 64.52 75.16 North Dakota 64.72 75.30 Northern Mariana Islands* 50.00 65.00 Ohio 59.66 71.76 Oklahoma 68.14 77.70 Oregon 61.07 72.75 Pennsylvania 54.39 68.07 Puerto Rico* 50.00 65.00 Rhode Island 52.35 66.65 South Carolina 69.54 78.68 South Dakota 62.92 74.04 Tennessee 63.65 74.56 Texas 60.78 72.55 Utah 70.14 79.10 Vermont 58.93 71.25 Virgin Islands* 50.00 65.00 Virginia 50.00 65.00 Washington 50.12 65.08 West Virginia 72.82 80.97 Wisconsin 57.47 70.23 Wyoming 52.91 67.04 ______________________________________________________________________ * For purposes of section 1118 of the Social Security Act, the
percentage used under titles I, X, XIV, and XVI will be 75 per centum.
** The values for the District of Columbia in the table were set for
the state plan under titles XIX and XXI and for capitation payments and
DSH allotments under those titles. For other purposes, including
programs remaining in Title IV of the Act, the percentage for D.C is 50.00. [FR Doc. 05-23392 Filed 11-29-05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4120-03-C
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