A more relevant comparison for Mississippi could be Georgia, which in July 2023 instituted an alternative to the ACA Medicaid expansion under a Section 1115 waiver. The Georgia Pathways program offered insurance to those with incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level but required documentation...
Brian Kemp Monday defended and doubled down on his signature Medicaid program — the only one in the nation with a work requirement — further dimming chances the state could adopt a broader expansion of the taxpayer-funded low-income health plan without a work mand...
There are resources, however, that can be protected for the spouse of the applicant if they still live in the community. These do not count towards the Medicaid Look Back Period. The Spousal Impoverishment Standard changes every year. In 2023, the Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance (MM...
In such cases, the healthy spouse at home is entitled to some or all of the monthly income of the institutionalized spouse. How much the community spouse is entitled to depends on what the local Medicaid agency determines to be a minimum income level for the community spouse. This fi...
This ATRA provision also extends the FY2020 DSH reductions to FY2022. It does not make changes for funding in FY2023, so that states' DSH allotments will revert to their pre-ACA reduced levels with the annual inflation adjustments for FY2014 to FY2023. ...
P.L. 115-120extended the Medicaid and CHIP MOE requirements for children for four years, from FY2020 through FY2023. However, for this period, the Medicaid and CHIP MOE requirements only apply to children in families with annual income less than 300% of FPL. During this specified period, ...
Prior research has established that prolonged exposure to low minimum wage [18] and lower household income [45,46] is associated with an increased risk of AD dementia; our geospatial analysis supports this relationship. However, the causal relationship between these factors is still unclear. The ...