Even though events in Washington leave the future of Medicaid unclear, 44 states still intend to raise at least some of their Medicaid rates in 2018.
Inpatient payments to hospitals are not among the major targets of the planned rate increases: only 17 states plan to increase Medicaid inpatients payments while the others plan to keep those rates as they are or even reduce them.
Learn more about trends in Medicaid enrollment, spending, and rates in the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual survey of state Medicaid programs, the results of which can be found here.