Arkansas Medicaid Spend Reconciliation

Every CMS-64 service category for FY2024, and how much of each appears in this claims dataset.

19%Low coverage

These claims represent 18.9% of Arkansas’s total Medicaid spending in FY2024, measured against the state’s own CMS-64 filing.

5% of enrollees are in comprehensive managed care, so most of their care is paid by capitation and never becomes a provider claim. The remainder is capitation, supplemental and DSH payments, Medicare premiums for dual eligibles, drug rebates and administration — none of which are claim-level. See the full reconciliation.

Total Medicaid spending, FY2024

$7,789,473,294

CMS-64 Total Net Expenditures, as Arkansas filed it

Visible in claims

$1,469,672,729

18.9% of the program

Published per-enrollee spending

$861PMPM

CMS-64 total ÷ 753,620 avg enrollees. Both figures published by CMS — not derived from these claims.

Categories this dataset can see$4,543,193,245

Services paid as provider claims. Coverage below 100% typically means part of the category is delivered through managed care, or billed with codes this dataset does not carry.

Read the category rows as indicative, not exact. The state total above is a like-for-like comparison and is sound. Individual rows are not, because the two columns are attributed differently: claims are categorised by billing code, while the CMS-64 is categorised by the authority the state pays under. A home visit billed under a 1915(c) waiver and the same visit billed under the state plan carry identical codes, so this dataset cannot tell them apart while Arkansas books them on different lines. That is why some rows exceed 100% while their neighbours sit near zero — it reflects where the state books the spending, not a discrepancy in the amount.

Service category	CMS-64 (state total)	Seen in claims	Coverage
Nursing Facility	$969,107,510	$16,198,544	2%
Hospital (Inpatient & Outpatient)	$861,409,347	$44,212,557	5%
Home & Community-Based Services	$704,672,762	$247,241,526	35%
Prescribed Drugs	$431,234,804	$13,106,553	3%
Physician & Surgical	$302,625,047	$210,445,417	70%
Screening & Preventive	$279,632,057	$14,263,893	5%
Behavioral Health	$218,774,640	$263,500,347	120%
Intermediate Care Facility (IID)	$159,074,933	$0	0%
Therapy Services	$114,785,051	$140,904,625	123%
FQHC & Rural Health Clinic	$111,694,672	$850,076	1%
Hospice	$73,884,345	$2,058,982	3%
Non-Emergency Transportation	$63,765,761	$53,419,513	84%
Home Health	$58,907,775	$54,122,958	92%
Laboratory & Radiology	$58,761,369	$65,236,709	111%
Other Care Services	$47,176,707	$6,027,816	13%
School-Based Services	$39,673,268	$0	0%
Other Practitioners	$26,301,329	$0	0%
Targeted Case Management	$13,783,845	$3,447,326	25%
DME & Supplies	$5,739,173	$40,014,304	697%
Dental	$975,170	$84,823,211	8698%
Family Planning	$685,069	$0	0%
Clinic Services	$528,611	$209,798,371	9999%

Categories no claims dataset can see$3,246,280,049

These are real spending — they are simply not paid as claims to providers, so no claims-based analysis will ever contain them. This is the bulk of the difference between the two figures above.

Service category	CMS-64 (state total)
Managed Care Capitation	$2,222,318,262
Medicare Premiums (Duals)	$814,646,917
Supplemental & DSH Payments	$581,717,996
Other CMS-64 Lines	$13,868,750
Drug Rebates & Collections	-$386,271,876

The table adds up. The categories above sum to $7,789,473,294, which is Arkansas’s CMS-64 Total Net Expenditures for FY2024 exactly. Every line the state filed is accounted for in one of the two tables — nothing is dropped or double-counted.

Sources: CMS-64 net expenditures from the CMS MBES/CBES quarterly expenditure reports (FY2024); enrollment from the CMS Medicaid and CHIP applications, eligibility determinations and enrollment data; managed-care share from the CMS managed care enrollment reports. Claims figures are from the public T-MSIS provider extract. Methodology.