More Cuts

These are the cuts Gov. Ritter is planning to make in order to rebalance the FY 2009-10 budget to the latest revenue forecast. There are a few notes after the spreadsheet that are important to understanding the HCPF numbers.

Department	FY 2009-10 GF (Long Bill)	Gov. Cuts (Balance to June Forecast)	Cuts as a Percent	Layoffs (Annualized)
Agriculture	$6,860,955	-$694,765	-10.1%	0.0
Corrections	$677,839,527	-$25,809,462	-3.8%	-29.3
Education	$3,239,416,000	-$33,022	0.0%	0.0
Governor and Energy Office	$14,283,355	-$1,105,650	-7.7%	-9.0
Health Care Policy & Financing	$1,587,903,164	-$457,136,848	-28.8%	-0.5
Higher Education	$660,575,732	-$80,935,058	-12.3%	0.0
Human Services	$670,638,807	-$19,913,782	-3.0%	-186.2
Judicial	$336,357,516	-$10,090,725	-3.0%	0.0
Labor and Employment	$0	$0	0.0%	0.0
Law	$10,008,042	-$300,241	-3.0%	0.0
Legislature	$35,162,475	-$1,054,874	-3.0%	0.0
Local Affairs	$11,889,613	-$778,013	-6.5%	0.0
Military and Veterans Affairs	$5,862,332	-$422,754	-7.2%	0.0
Natural Resources	$29,680,331	-$2,729,440	-9.2%	-6.3
Personnel and Administration	$6,291,404	-$271,294	-4.3%	-8.0
Public Health and Environment	$28,232,074	-$1,520,308	-5.4%	0.0
Public Safety	$83,212,852	-$2,159,794	-2.6%	-6.6
Regulatory Agencies	$1,666,729	-$189,549	-11.4%	-1.0
Revenue	$75,719,920	-$1,803,535	-2.4%	-19.7
State	$0	$0	0.0%	0.0
Transportation	$0	$0	0.0%	0.0
Treasury	$1,933,721	-$28,900	-1.5%	0.0
Total:	$7,483,534,549	-$606,978,014	-8.1%	-266.6

That $457 million cut for Health Care Policy and Financing isn't as big as it seems. Part of the federal ARRA program is giving states a higher match for the money we spend on Medicaid.

We put that money into hte budget as a GF cut. It is a cut in GF, but it's replaced with the federal money. (We could put the higher Medicaid match in the budget as revenue, but that would mask the fact that we'll have to replace it with GF when ARRA ends).

The ARRA part of the HCPF cut is $345.8 million. That means the actual cut to Medicaid is $111.3 million or 7%.