How Much Are Medicaid Buy-In Participants Earning?

How Much Are Medicaid Buy-In Participants Earning?

Working with Disability Earnings In Brief #1
Published: May 30, 2006
Publisher: Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research
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Authors

William E. Black

Henry T. Ireys

Promoting employment for people with disabilities is an important policy objective for the nation. The first brief in a new series on the Medicaid Buy-In program, which extends Medicaid coverage to people with disabilities who go to work so they do not lose health care, examines participant earnings. We found that 66 percent worked, with average annual earnings of over $7,000 in 2004.

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