Enrollment in the Transitional Medical Assistance program, which allows certain low-income families to remain on Medicaid for up to one year if their income rises above the eligibility line, grew more than 15 percent to a total of more than 3.7 million people across 43 reporting states, according to the GAO.
In the 36 states that reported expenses on the program, the TMA program cost roughly $4.1 billion, up 23.5 percent from 2010’s total when 34 states reported the information.
Illinois had the largest enrollment and expenses on the program in 2011, with 445,481 individuals costing $563 million.
The latest data updates a previously released GAO report on 2011 TMA data, after states that had missed the previous December reporting deadline submitted their information, which raised the original total expenses by about $241 million.
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