Medical Assistance Program in Alaska

Medicaid’s Alaska cell is ten large instruments

CFDA 93.778 is titled MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. That Catalog name is the federal Medicaid assistance line as USAspending files it. Filtered to Alaska place of performance, obligations sum to $8,140,216,159 on 10 awards. Medicaid typically posts as a small number of very large assistance instruments rather than one row per claim. The implied mean of about $814.02 million per award is a state-pass-through instrument size, not a typical encounter cost.

The national Medical Assistance Program hub includes every other state. Alaska federal spending includes every other program. This tie is the intersection. An obligation is not an outlay. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so $8,140,216,159 cannot be treated as a single federal fiscal year of FMAP or as completed provider payments.

Packet facts stop at Alaska, CFDA 93.778, $8,140,216,159, and 10 awards. Recipient names, enrollee counts, and provider lists are absent. Do not invent contractors, hospitals, or award recipients. This page offers no medical advice. Correlation is not causation.

93.778 is not CHIP in Alaska

Children's Health Insurance Program (CFDA 93.767) and Medicare hospital insurance sit on other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars into $8,140,216,159 would invent a broader total than this 93.778 × AK cell contains. Facts available: Alaska, CFDA 93.778, $8,140,216,159, 10 awards. The program name on the packet is Medical Assistance Program.

Dividing $8,140,216,159 by 10 yields about $814.02 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Ten is not a count of Alaska enrollees, tribes, hospitals, or boroughs. Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, and every other locality collapse into one AK place-of-performance code on this page.

Questions

How much Medical Assistance Program funding is obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov shows $8,140,216,159 in CFDA 93.778 obligations coded to Alaska across 10 awards. The catalog is the federal Medicaid assistance line. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep Medical Assistance Program and Alaska together when citing $8,140,216,159.

Is Medicaid the same as CHIP in Alaska?

No. This cell is CFDA 93.778 only. Children's Health Insurance Program (93.767) is a different catalog. Mixing those dollars would invent a total larger than $8,140,216,159. Ten is a record count, not an enrollee census.

Does 10 awards mean 10 Alaska hospitals?

Ten is a USAspending award-record count, not a hospital, enrollee, or borough census. The implied mean is about $814.02 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $8,140,216,159 are not outlays. Packet facts stop at $8,140,216,159, 10 awards, AK, and 93.778. Place of performance is a geography tag, not a roster of named recipients.

Do these obligations equal Medicaid claims already paid?

No. $8,140,216,159 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no enrollee or claim count. Keep the obligation label when citing the 93.778 × AK pair. Keep the obligation label on $8,140,216,159 and name both Medical Assistance Program and Alaska. Original filings for CFDA 93.778 remain on USAspending.gov.