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Awards/BLOCK GRANT (A)

$79,243,622,296

Department of Health and Human Services·Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

to HEALTH CARE SERVICES, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF

healthactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-06-22·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_2605CA5MAP_075
Award description

MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR 7 - FY 2026 - T19

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Federal Medicaid funding to California for healthcare services to low-income residents in fiscal year 2026.

Sub-sectors
medicaid-entitlementstate-block-grant
Why this matters

Medicaid entitlements are the largest federal health transfer to states; this $80B increment reflects ongoing enrollment and cost pressures in the nation's most populous state.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.002673.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 92 days
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