How will carved out PMAP/PGAMC funds be distributed?
Prior to July 1, 2003, MERC legislation called for carved out PMAP/PGAMC funds to be distributed using a formula that equally weighted education volume and Medicaid volume. One-half of the carved out funds were distributed based on the same formula that governs the distribution of general MERC dollars; total costs for each training site were calculated using average clinical training costs per trainee multiplied by number of eligible trainees, then each site’s percentage of total costs was calculated to determine the percentage of the Fund that site would receive. Distribution of the other half of the PMAP/PGAMC dollars was calculated using a process that calculates each training site’s public program volume as a percentage of total public program volume: ((# eligible trainees * average costs/trainee for provider type) / total costs across all sites) * 50% + (public program revenue at site / grand total of public program revenue across sites) * 50% In its January 2001 report to the Leg
