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...
Alternative Care Program Essential Community Supports Community Support Grant Other Financial Assistance/Affordable Care Options in MN MississippiMississippi Medicaid’sElderly and Disabled Waiverprovides a variety of supports and care services to individuals in their homes, including personal care and adult ...
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...
Instead, if you check out this map from the Tax Foundation, the answer is Mississippi, followed by Louisiana, Tennessee, Montana, and Kentucky. All of which are red states! So does this mean that politicians in red states are hypocrites who like big government so long as someone else is ...
according todata released todayfrom the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law (CPHLR). This denies access to care to approximately 1.9 million people living in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, an...
Mississippi's Flawed Medicaid Waiver Proposal: Waiver Provides No Benefit to Most People the State Is Planning to Cut Off of Medicaid and Could Lead to Add... On September 15, Mississippi plans to stop providing Medicaid health coverage to tens of thousands of low-income retirees and people wh...
(from 50% in high-income states, like New York, Alaska, and California, to 77.8% in the poorest state, Mississippi). Many individuals enrolled in traditional Medicaid are at high risk for COVID-19 complications because of preexisting health conditions, older age, or both. A major driver ...
A proposed coverage expansion died in the Mississippi House last session, but Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said the Senate will revive the measure, according to Mississippi Today. Last year, federal officials approved a Medicaid waiver for Missouri that allows the state to extend postpartum eligibilit...
(120-day) provider enrollment in the state's Medicaid program is available. Providers may call a toll-free number to verify an individual's eligibility for Mississippi Medicaid.(18)As described later in this report, the state recently obtained a Hurricane Katrina Section 1115 waiver that provides...
1998. New York had added 300,000 adults to its Medicaid program via an expansion of its §1115 waiver to include the state’s pre-existing Home Relief (health insurance) program. In addition, Massachusetts added thousands of adults to Medicaid through ...