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Medicaid Financing MethodMinnesota’s federal matching rate for Medicaid is 52.95 percent for fiscal year 2004, and 50percent for fiscal years 2005 and 2006. 396 The state portion of Medicaid funding comes fromsliding-scale premiums and copayments, with the rest (the majority) coming from the HealthCare Access Fund, a special revenue state fund that is funded through a 2 percent provider tax;a 1 percent premium tax on health maintenance organizations, nonprofit health service plancorporations, and community integrated service networks; and other funds to a lesser extent,including general revenue. 397,398Total Medicaid spending in Minnesota in FY 2003 was $4,921,224,346. The average Medicaidspending per enrollee in FY 2000 was $5,418. This varied from an average of $1,667 spent oneach child to an average of $16,754 spent per enrollee in the blind and disabled group. 399Medicaid BenefitsMedicaid in Minnesota offers outpatient hospital services and services at freestandingambulatory surgery centers, public and mental health clinics, federally qualified health centers,and rural health clinics. It also offers inpatient hospital services. The following are types ofbenefits offered:• Dental services, dentures, eyeglasses, hearing aids and services for speech, hearingand language disorders.• Laboratory and X-ray services.• Medical equipment and supplies, prosthetic and orthotic devices.• Early and periodical screening, diagnosis and treatment services; family planningservices; rehabilitation services (mental health and substance abuse).• Services by these health care providers: certified registered nurse anesthetist,chiropractor, other medical and remedial care practitioners, dentists providing medicalsurgical services, nurse midwife, nurse practitioner, optometrist, physician, podiatrist,psychologist.• Prescription drugs.• Physical and occupational therapy services.• Ambulance services, non-emergency medical transportation services.• Home health services, hospice services, personal care services, private duty nursingservices, targeted case management.• Institutional services: inpatient psychiatric services under age 21, inpatient hospitalnursing facility and intermediate care facility services for mental disease age 65 andolder, institutions for mental disease, intermediate care facilities for the mentallyretarded, nursing facility services. 400SCHIP CharacteristicsMinnesota has a combined Medicaid and SCHIP program. The federal share for SCHIP is 65percent for FFY2005 and the state share is 35 percent of each dollar spent. 401 Minnesota spent$99.5 million on SCHIP in FY 2004, including both federal and state funds. 402 As of December2003, there were 2,731 children enrolled in SCHIP in Minnesota. 403 To qualify for SCHIP, achild must be younger than 19, a U.S. citizen or legal resident, not eligible for Medicaid or stateemployee coverage, not have private insurance, and have a family income below 200 percent ofC-31