Financial Analysis

Federal Documents

• CBO Final Budget Estimate PDF
  The Congressional Budget Office's March 20, 2010 cost estimates of the health reform legislation.
  
  
• CBO Preliminary Budget Estimate PDF
  The Congressional Budget Office's March 18, 2010 cost estimates of the health reform legislation.
  
  
• CBO Presentation on Impact of Healthcare Bill PDF
  PowerPoint presentation that depicts the estimated financial impact of PPACA from CBO.
  
  
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Understanding the CMS Actuary's Report on Health Reform PDF
  CBPP's analysis of the CMS cost analysis of PPACA. This analysis provides a comparison between the CMS analysis and the CBO's analysis.
  
  
• CMS Actuary's Latest Health Spending Projections
  This report by the CMS Office of the Actuary projects average annual growth in national health spending between 2009 and 2019. The report projects annual growth to be .2 percentage points higher than the Office's Feb. 2010 projections.
  
  
• CMS Cost Analysis of PPACA PDF
  CMS analysis of the federal cost of PPACA. Estimates a total federal cost of of $828 billion through 2019, offset by a $577 billion net savings from Medicare/Medicaid reform provisions, leaving a net overall federal cost of $251 billion through 2019.
  
  

Arkansas Documents

• Research Report: The Economic Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Arkansas
  This report, commissioned by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement and authored by the RAND Corporation, estimates the economic impact of full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, including the expansion of Medicaid.
  
  

Other Documents

• Funding and Grant Opportunities PDF
  An NCSL presentation on state funding and grant opportunities in the new Healthcare Law.
  
  
• Healthcare Reform Cost to States PDF
  Kaiser Family Foundation report estimating the state-by-state increased Medicaid costs through 2019. The report estimates that between 2014 and 2019, Arkansas will spend $455 million to $761 million more than it would have without the health reform law.