Annual Statistical Supplement, 2010

Health Care Programs

Medicaid

State Data

Table 8.H1 Number of recipients, total payments, and average payment, by state, fiscal year 2008
State Number of recipients Total payments (millions of dollars) Average payment (dollars)
United States a 58,705,110 296,560 5,052
Alabama 829,815 3,508 4,227
Alaska 119,340 974 8,162
Arizona 1,398,542 6,584 4,707
Arkansas 826,911 3,251 3,932
California 10,514,516 32,245 3,067
Colorado 625,915 2,985 4,768
Connecticut 524,210 4,144 7,905
Delaware 180,795 1,137 6,290
District of Columbia 168,237 1,739 10,338
Florida 2,870,985 13,224 4,606
Georgia 1,711,976 6,863 4,009
Hawaii b 223,687 993 4,439
Idaho 233,056 1,263 5,419
Illinois 2,316,772 10,235 4,418
Indiana 1,126,436 4,941 4,387
Iowa 498,325 2,691 5,401
Kansas 350,971 2,296 6,541
Kentucky 893,008 4,475 5,011
Louisiana 1,156,601 4,991 4,316
Maine 305,581 1,355 4,435
Maryland 757,031 5,578 7,369
Massachusetts 1,230,063 8,991 7,310
Michigan 1,789,798 9,231 5,157
Minnesota 762,946 6,646 8,711
Mississippi 657,430 3,124 4,751
Missouri 1,054,099 5,225 4,957
Montana 113,015 655 5,792
Nebraska 249,193 1,536 6,165
Nevada 249,257 1,130 4,535
New Hampshire 131,056 935 7,137
New Jersey 1,065,155 7,713 7,241
New Mexico 507,400 3,058 6,028
New York 4,868,996 43,041 8,840
North Carolina 1,785,086 8,925 5,000
North Dakota 74,017 551 7,442
Ohio 2,061,713 12,062 5,850
Oklahoma 765,344 3,350 4,376
Oregon 487,361 2,460 5,047
Pennsylvania 2,134,331 12,501 5,857
Rhode Island 203,731 1,648 8,087
South Carolina 871,211 4,347 4,990
South Dakota 136,734 673 4,923
Tennessee 1,471,158 6,362 4,324
Texas 3,992,911 16,657 4,172
Utah b 242,650 1,395 5,748
Vermont 162,143 883 5,445
Virginia 839,475 4,661 5,552
Washington 1,187,798 5,834 4,912
West Virginia 377,631 2,402 6,360
Wisconsin 1,531,520 4,589 2,996
Wyoming 69,178 503 7,273
SOURCE: Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) State Summary Data, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
a. Excludes recipients in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Data are not available.
b. Fiscal year 2008 data are not available for Hawaii and Utah. Fiscal year 2007 data have been substituted.
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