Medicaid Funding – Utah

Utah’s Medicaid wants a big boost, By Lisa Rosetta, September 28, 2009, Salt Lake Tribune: “With its enrollment fast approaching 200,000 Utahns — an all-time high — the state’s Medicaid program is poised to ask the Legislature for $17 million in additional funding to keep it afloat through fiscal 2010. But it’s a request that may fall on unsympathetic ears. Alarmed by an audit that said Medicaid’s Bureau of Program Integrity could save as much as $20 million if it more scrupulously examined bills and claims for services, House Speaker Dave Clark said the public health insurance program is going to have to find those savings and plug its own funding hole…”