MississippiMississippi Medicaid’sElderly and Disabled Waiverprovides a variety of supports and care services to individuals in their homes, including personal care and adult day care. Serving a different audience in their homes is theIndependent Living Waiver. ...
On September 15, Mississippi plans to stop providing Medicaid health coverage to tens of thousands of low-income retirees and people who are permanently disabled, a group known as Poverty-Level Aged and Disabled (or PLAD) beneficiaries. This policy, proposed by Governor Haley Barbour and approved...
In FY2011, the temporary FMAP rate increase phased down each quarter from the original ARRA levels in the first quarter to regular FMAP rates in the fourth quarter of FY2011 (the temporary FMAP rate increase ended on June 30, 2011). Mississippi received the highest FMAP rate in all four qu...
The Secretary of HHS has exercised both the Section 1115 waiver authority and the Section 1135 waiver authority to make needed changes to health care programs so they are better able to accommodate the emergency health care needs of Hurricane Katrina survivors. Below is a brief description of the...
eligibility categories, medically needy groups, transitional Medicaid, or through §1115 waiver (continued...) CRS-7 Over this 4-year period, adults qualifying for Medicaid via cash-related groups fell 36%, while enrollment in other groups rose by nearly 24%, yielding a net loss for ...