Correction: Adult Out-Of-Staters About 9% Of Private Option, 7% Of Medicaid
by October 13, 2015 9:07 pm 156 views
A Talk Business & Politics story that ran Oct. 7 headlined, “Legislators learn Medicaid, private option serving out-of-staters, dead,” incorrectly reported that The Stephen Group consulting firm had found that 16% of Medicaid beneficiaries have best addresses that are out of state. The actual figure is 7.8% of identified adult beneficiaries. As originally reported, the overall number of recipients with alleged out-of-state addresses receiving Medicaid or private option benefits – 42,891 – is accurate.
According to page 180 of The Stephen Group’s “Volume I, Findings Report,” 20,110 private option recipients were found to have best addresses that were out of state in a LexisNexis search. That number is 8.9% of the population’s 224,782 adults with unique LexIDs, as found on page 176. Another 22,781 traditional Medicaid recipients were found to have best addresses that were out of state – 7% of the 325,124 adult traditional Medicaid beneficiaries who have a unique LexID.
According to John Stephen of The Stephen Group, a LexID is derived from a LexisNexis process that identifies adult individuals through publicly available documentation.
The 42,891 combined Medicaid and private option beneficiaries is 7.8% of the 549,906 total unique adult LexIDs identified by LexisNexis.