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Gestational weight gain (GWG) is a routinely monitored aspect of pregnancy health, yet critical gaps remain about optimal GWG in pregnant people from socially marginalized groups, or with pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) in the lower or upper extremes
On average, an additional 13 percent of state expenditures fund higher education, including vocational institutions, community colleges and university systems. In fiscal 2015 this equaled about $156 billion nationwide. Health care allocation The next largest average state expenditure is on Medicaid progra...
Expenditures are for personnel, debt service, and a wide variety of services, such as police, education and economic assistance. About 39% of the $4.1 billion budget is mandated by various state and federal government programs, such as Medicaid, which restricts the freedom of the county to app...
TANF, Medicaid, or both, depending on the circumstances, for some members of the family Individuals eligible to enroll in other government programs may do so at the agency’s discretion. Nutrition Risk Requirement Applicants must be evaluated by a health expert, such as a physician, nurse, or...
“good faith effort” exemptions, which provided an additional year to implement EVV and iron out any issues. Some of these efforts were hampered by COVID-19, but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hasn’t reextended the deadline. So some states are still scrambling to ...
These types of services are commonly referred to as Long-Term Services and Supports or LTSS. In recent years, states have grown to play an essential role in the provision of these services with Medicaid now serving as the largest payer of LTSS, accounting for 41 percent of all LTSS spending...
GoldenGov: State Executive of the Year With nearly seven years as Nebraska’s CIO, Ed Toner’s work of consolidating and modernizing state IT systems is approaching a landmark: He says the state is updating its “very last legacy system,” Nebraska’s Medicaid platform. “We’re putting in...
Iowa individual taxpayers who make a contribution can deduct up to $3,474 for 2021 (adjusted annually for inflation) of their contributions including rollovers from a Non-Iowa 529A plan, in determining their adjusted gross income for Iowa income tax purposes. Kansas Kansas ABLE Savings Plan NO...