(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...
STD Integration in Mississippi: An Example from a Non-Medicaid Expansion StateMary Currier
Supreme Court in the Mississippi case. Effect of Supreme Court ruling: The day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Georgia’s attorney general asked the 11th Circuit to reverse the lower court’s ruling and allow the state’s abortion law to take effect. The 11th Circuit on July 20...
Medicaid can deny coverage to pregnant women for several reasons. Learn about the guidelines before completing an application to avoid needless rejection.
Before a state creates a state-based exchange, it must submit a declaration letter to convey its intentions to the center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The states with SBE include California, New York, Nevada, Connectic...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, maintains this source data, and requires that healthcare providers update their NPI record within thirty days of any change, making it the most up-to-date resource for ...
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...
Alabama and Mississippi are finally open to implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. And Arizona lawmakers are considering the therapeutic effects of psychedelic mushrooms. State lawmakers are increasingly driving big policy debates as Congress struggles to keep the federal government funded. And the...