counseling assistance and screening for Medicaid waivers. All of this is available — regardless of an individual's financial ability — at a person's local MAC center, over the telephone, in a person's home, or at another convenient location upon request. There is no charge for this service...
One contributing factor may be the state’s recent expansion of Medicaid to cover all pregnant women and infants with incomes up to 185% of the federal poverty level--a dramatic advance over a decade earlier when it covered women and infants only up to 38% of poverty. The state is also ...