The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has been one of the nation’s most successful and cost-effective nutrition intervention programs, protecting and improving the health of nearly 6.3 million individuals, including over 55,000 Arkansans, in 2020.
This fact sheet looks at the role of Medicaid in Arkansas, including programmatic history, financing, covered populations and benefits, as well as key considerations.
This explainer looks at block grants and other alternatives to traditional Medicaid financing.
This fact sheet provides information about FMAP calculation, match rates for Arkansas programs, FMAP variation across states, and ways that states may use federal funds differently in the future.
In 2013, Arkansas opted to expand healthcare coverage to low-income adults earning below 138 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The program, now known as Arkansas Works, used federal funds allotted for Medicaid expansion under the ACA to purchase qualified health plans (QHPs) available in the Health Insurance Marketplace (HIM).
