Revamping Medicaid: A Five-Year Check-up on Tennessee's Experiment

ENDNOTES

1. See Zaretsky (1995) for more information about the origins of TennCare.
2. The Health Care Financing Administration--the government agency that administers the Medicaid and Medicare programs--granted Tennessee a five-year waiver in 1993, which allowed the state to withdraw from Medicaid and institute TennCare. Without the extension, the original waiver would have expired on Dec. 31, 1998.
3. See Lyons and Fox (1999) for more detailed results of the recipient survey.
4. By federal regulation, TennCare must always cover Medicaid-eligible participants, regardless of the enrollment cap.

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