ALL ACUTE CARE OUT-OF-STATE PROVIDERS WERE NOTIFIED OF THESE IMPENDING CHANGES IN JANUARY 2005. DUE TO PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS, IMPLEMENTATION WAS DELAYED. THE TRADE AREA NOW CONSISTS OF ONLY THOSE COUNTIES LOCATED IN TEXAS, ARKANSAS, & MISSISSIPPI WHICH BORDER LOUISIANA. ALL ACUTE CARE PROVIDERS IN ...
(Placename) a state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid ...
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...
Mississippi’s budget is expected to grow more slowly next year than it has the past few years. That reflects economic trends with a cooling off of state sales tax collections.
of Medicaid and General Assistance Medical Care, a state program for low-income adults 21 to 64 years of age, who have no dependent children under the age of 18 and do not qualify for federal healthcare programs.According to Lisa Diagle, policy analyst for the American Society of Health-...
Medicaid: Block grant the program and let states learn from each other on the best way of providing health care to the indigent. Welfare: Building on the success of Bill Clinton’s welfare reform, get Washington out of the business of redistribution. Fixing these three problems would be a bi...
ABD (Aged, Blind & Disabled) LTSS (Long-Term Services & Supports) DSNP (Dual Special Needs Plans) Get updates on Medicaid topics you care about Be the first to know about relevant news & insights by subscribing to our newsletter.
Mississippi EVV model: State-mandated in-house system Mississippiimplemented its own telephone-based EVV solution, MediKey, in 2017. Agencies cannot use alternative vendors. Mississippi is currently working with its vendor, FEI Systems, to upgrade from MediKey to a new CareVisit EVV platform, wh...
Rates of maternal deaths are highest in the Mississippi Delta region, which includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. All four states had abortion restrictions prior to the Supreme Court overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, and they all now have full abortion bans. Fl...