The state Department of Health Services is projecting that Medicaid costs will be $7.9 million in GPR above what it had budgeted for the 2017-19 biennium.
The figure represents a tiny share of the $6.1 billion in GPR that the state is projected to spend in the biennium.
But the agency’s quarterly report to the Joint Finance Committee broke with a recent trend of DHS projecting surpluses, though th...
