Thursday, June 27, 2013

How Missouri Ineffectively Deals With Child Welfare

 In Missouri, there are 744,045 families with 1,383,001 children.

Low-Income Children: 44% (604,338) of children live in low-income families (National: 45%), defined as income below 200% of the federal poverty level. 
Poor Children: 21% (288,121) of children live in poor families (National: 22%), defined as income below 100% of the federal poverty level. 
During CYs 2009 and 2010, the [Missouri] State agency reported sterilization procedure costs of $14,592,649, which served as its basis for claiming Federal reimbursement.

...[t]he State agency overstated the amount of Federal reimbursement reported on the CMS-64 
reports by $1,480,516.  This excess Federal reimbursement occurred because the [Missouri] State agency’s adjustment process— that was designed to identify costs for family planning sterilization procedures—was ineffective.
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