NY still tops in Medicaid spending

http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2007/11/05/daily4.html?jst=s_cn_hl

New York also ranked No. 1 in total and per-capita hospital spending. New Yorkers spent more than $9.8 billion dollars on inpatient and outpatient hospital care in 2006, or $509 per capita--140 percent above the national per-capita average. New York's total hospital spending made up 15 percent of all Medicaid hospital spending nationwide, although the state has just 6 percent of the nation's population.