Arkansas uses Medicaid funds to provide similar cost-sharing subsidies for plans purchased for the state's hybrid expansion, and those subsidies weren't affected by Trump's action Oct.

Following state and federal Medicaid guidelines, Trillium CCO (and Agate, the holding company that owned Trillium) provided oversight and administration of Medicaid funds while simultaneously implementing a for-profit business model.

The court let the expansion stand as a voluntary program separate from the rest of Medicaid, and prohibits the federal government from cutting off existing Medicaid funds for states that choose not to participate in the expansion.

This study examines those costs across three major state funding mechanisms: state tax collections, Medicaid funds, and the costs of incarceration.

One of the biggest differences highlighted by the Omaha Herald is the fact that the Iowa affiliate has long received Title X family planning funds from the federal government, along with a federal waiver that lets the group expand eligibility for Medicaid funds. Nebraska pulled out of the Title X program in 2005 and legislative efforts to apply for the Medicaid waiver failed.

As such, the new federal Medicaid funds require states to maintain their respective Medicaid eligibility standards that were in place as of July 1, 2008, and stay in compliance with prompt payment standards.

President-elect Barack Obama met with members of the National Governors Association in early December in Philadelphia to discuss how to provide economic relief, including additional Medicaid funds, to the states.

Despite the initial successes, the program's long-term sustainability hinges on whether the state can keep its cost in proportion to its benefits and whether it can resolve differences with federal health officials over use of Medicaid funds to subsidize care.

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), a state agency, was charged with administering these Medicaid funds.

First, the Act gives a primary care dental or medical practice located in or within 5 miles of an HEZ the ability to deduct from its taxable income an amount equal to payments received by the practice in Medicaid funds, provided that at least half of the income earned by the practice is paid in Medicaid funds.

The federal government allocated $159.7 billion to states in Medicaid funds (not including administrative costs such as processing and making payments to service providers) and $1.7 billion in SSBG funds.

State governments are nonetheless moving to convert more behavioral healthcare funding from grant funds to Medicaid funds. The reason is simple economics: State treasuries receive a guaranteed federal match for every dollar spent on Medicaid-reimbursed care.

Meanwhile, as Republicans are thinking of evermore ingenious ways to restrict the right to an abortion, Bush himself is cutting back on Medicaid funds so that facilities which treat the poor have a harder time doing so.

In 1997 the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) issued a statement to long-term care facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funds regarding "do not resuscitate" (DNR) policies.