AlabamaIn Alabama, there are four Medicaid programs that help with home care. These are theElderly and Disabled Waiver, theSAIL Waiver, and thePersonal Choices Program. All programs offer self-direction of home care. This allows participants to have some choice about their caregiver. The newerAla...
Objective To evaluate the effect of participation in group prenatal care (GPNC) compared with participation in traditional prenatal care (TPNC) on enrollment in the post-partum family planning waiver program among South Carolina wdoi:10.1016/j.ajog.2012.10.261Hale, Nathan...
expenses, such as housing, transportation, food, etc., while enrolled in a HCBS waiver program. d This column shows the amount of monthly protected income for an individual receiving HCBS waiver services as a percentage of the federal poverty level (FPL). The 2000 federal povertylevel (FPL) ...
Oklahoma paid Homestyle Direct $6.2 million in 2023, and Idaho paid the company $1 million that year. South Carolina has paid the company $2.8 million so far this fiscal year. The lax Medicaid standards for nutritional quality are likely a byproduct of how the program that pays for these ...
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, and Wyoming. North Carolina and South Dakota have both approved expansion, with implementation pending...
Seven of those states are in the South. But as more conservative-leaning states like North Carolina adopt it, the drumbeat of support, as one Southern state lawmaker put it, grows louder. Advocates for expanding Medicaid say opposition is largely being driven by political polarization, rather th...
$42.7 billion. The 14 states/territories that did not employ a risk-based comprehensive Medicaid managed care model in FFY 2018 were Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Connecticut, Guam, Maine, Montana, Northern Mariana Islands, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, Virgin Islands and ...
On August 31, 2022, CMS issued a proposed rule to reduce coverage gaps by streamlining the application, enrollment, and renewal process for coverage in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) (the Proposed Rule). The Proposed Rule aims to make it easier for children, ...
of Hurricane Katrina. Congress may also consider the desirability of uniform treatment of hurricane victims across states (rather than relying on participation in the waiver program developed by CMS). A number of bills that would provide Hurricane Katrina Medicaid and SCHIP relief have been introduced...
In July, the federal government announced it would seek a new round of public comment on the issue and submit a new waiver approval for Kentucky’s Medicaid program within the next two months. In the meantime,the federal district court rulinghas no direct effect on other states...