New Panel Will Study Medicaid With Eyes Toward Big Changes

By ROBERT PEAR
Published: May 12, 2005

WASHINGTON, May 11 - The Bush administration will create an advisory panel to recommend big changes in Medicaid eligibility and benefits and in the financing of the program, administration officials said Wednesday.

By Sept. 1, the panel is to recommend ways to save $10 billion in Medicaid, the federal-state program that insures more than 50 million low-income people.