The Number and Cost of Immigrants on Medicaid: National and State Estimates

by Leighton Ku and Bethany Kessler of The Urban Institute.

This report provides national and state-by-state estimates of the number and cost of noncitizen Medicaid beneficiaries. The analyses are based on the Medicaid Quality Control (QC) data base for the first half of 1994, with additional information about Supplemental Security Income (SSI) participants from the Social Security Administration (SSA).

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