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How Puerto Rico's Experience Demonstrates the Risks and Costs of Medicaid Block Grants or Per Capita Caps

Grant Details

Grantee Organization
Georgetown University

Principal Investigator
Edwin Park, J.D.

Term
5/15/20 - 9/30/20

Award Amount
$50,000

Approval Year

Related Program
Medicaid

Topics
State Health Policy and Medicaid

Grant Details

Grantee Organization
Georgetown University

Principal Investigator
Edwin Park, J.D.

Term
5/15/20 - 9/30/20

Award Amount
$50,000

Approval Year

Related Program
Medicaid

Topics
State Health Policy and Medicaid

Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families will prepare a Commonwealth Fund issue brief using Puerto Rico as an example of how block-grant financing has impacted its Medicaid program and health care system capacity, and will include an analysis comparing Puerto Rico’s funding needs to annual block-grant amounts as well as assessing unanticipated Medicaid costs the territory has experienced as a result of natural disasters and past economic declines as context on whether Healthy Adult Opportunity provisions would provide sufficient protections for states.

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