Sentences with phrase «federal reimbursement»

The panel acknowledged that its recommendations would increase costs and called for a higher federal reimbursement to school districts, capital investments and money to train cafeteria workers to make the changes.

She added that the study comes at a time when federal reimbursement requirements are increasingly focusing on patient care and adjusting payments based on patient satisfaction.

It's part of a complicated federal reimbursement formula.

Of course, without federal reimbursement, it could make those services much more expensive for those states.

These salads do qualify for federal reimbursement for the 30 percent of our students who receive FARMS subsidies.»

The county and local governments in the Florida Keys have applied for tens of millions of dollars in federal reimbursements for Hurricane Irma recovery costs, but between the state and FEMA, very little money has reached the Keys — and hurricane season is two months away.

That's very different situation from a high school like Holy Trinity where kids have no other lunch options (besides lunch from home), keeping the level of federal reimbursement dollars higher.

Similarly, those who live in districts dependent on federal reimbursement should learn what they can from more successful districts — the reduction of inefficiencies, etc. — that may be replicable even without additional funding.

In anticipation of Congressional reauthorization of the federal child nutrition programs, some have called for increased federal reimbursement rates for school meals to improve their nutritional quality.

The device must meet crash test criteria established by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)-- or it will no longer be eligible for federal reimbursement by FHWA.

Accordingly, rather than force children to take the whole meal and throw out much of it, in 1975, Congress passed an amendment to the School Lunch Act allowing high schools to still receive federal reimbursement for meals so long as students selected at least three out of five options served, including milk.

Federally funded school meals are called «reimbursable» because they meet the nutritional guidelines and are eligible for federal reimbursement from the federal school lunch or breakfast programs.

They may get federal reimbursements for providing those shelters, or they could get reimbursements from a private group like the Red Cross, or the county,» said Hollamon.

Depending on each district's situation (prevailing labor costs in the area, whether kitchens are available and properly outfitted, etc.) scratch - cooking can in fact be cost - prohibitive under the current federal reimbursement rate.

Alabama districts participating in national school meal programs served more than 129 million breakfasts and lunches during the 2013 - 14 school year, resulting in more than $ 272 million in federal reimbursements through the national school breakfast and lunch programs.

Malloy says the tax might cost the state federal reimbursement money because of the way it's written.

The bill would bar federal reimbursements for state Medicaid funds raised from local governments.

Somehow Los Angeles USD and other districts around the country are serving school meals on the same federal reimbursement as everyone else and not serving beef with pink slime.

States receive a 90 percent federal reimbursement on Medicaid family planning spending, for example.

For example, what if districts with lower property values received more federal reimbursement dollars for school meals than districts with higher property values, with the affluent districts making up the difference via a higher lunch price for paying students?

School lunches have to follow certain meal pattern requirements to receive federal reimbursement funds.

With low federal reimbursement rates for school meals (42 cents for paid meals, $ 2.81 for reduced - price meals and $ 3.21 for free meals), the added cost of healthy food gets passed on to families that can least afford it.

Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said obtaining the same federal reimbursements as U.S. states regarding Medicaid and Medicare would be a game changer for Puerto Rico's economy.

Federal reimbursements don't pay for capital outlays.

Moreover, I really want to hear from Mike McGalliard (either here on TLT where he's commented before or perhaps on next week's episode) how he plans to «scale up» a Carpinteria - style operation at West Adams using only federal reimbursement dollars.

That is exactly what Rebecca Mozaffarian, project manager for the Harvard Prevention Research Center, set out to do in her work with YMCA afterschool programs around the country where they were charged with finding healthier snack and drink alternatives to fit within the 76 - cent per child federal reimbursement for afterschool programs.

«We called Chicago school officials on Monday and indicated that they would not be eligible for federal reimbursement because they did not have an educational program in the schools, «said Richardson, who has since made a final decision to withhold federal funding.

With totals from last year's historic flood still being calculated and paperwork for federal reimbursements still coming in, Lake Ontario leaders are preparing for more flooding.

Federal reimbursement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, for example, have been trying to shift to a «value - based» payment model, where providers sometimes receive fixed payments to encourage them to control costs.

They're struggling mightily to serve kids decent food under a measly federal reimbursement rate, and there's not a lot of extra cash lying around for organic gardens, staff training and new cooking equipment and food storage facilities at every single school.

Not only will The Wellness Impact help you make your case for the positive impact school breakfast has on student cognition and behavior, it can help you make your «dollars and cents» case as well; BIC often has a dramatic impact on participation numbers at breakfast, which means leaving fewer federal reimbursement dollars on the table.

But when you're serving 250,000 meals a day in Houston (or 700,000 in L.A.) on limited federal reimbursement dollars from a central kitchen, I can tell you with some confidence the food is going to look a lot more like the pictures I showed you above than it's going to look like the West Adams culinary students» brightly - hued, scratch - prepared wraps and salads.

And the Hunger - Free Schools Act lets high - poverty schools all over the state utilize federal reimbursement to feed hungry kids.

According to Poppendieck and her sources, «offer vs. serve» marked the dawning of a new era in which school lunch service began to be viewed more as a business: if children chose only three of the five offerings, schools received the same federal reimbursement at a lower cost, hence more profit.

Schools are REQUIRED to follow the nutrition standards and can be forced to pay back federal reimbursements if their menus are non-compliant.

Advocates can expand the Afterschool Meal Program and obtain federal reimbursement using proven outreach strategies, including promoting the program, building relationships with afterschool and out - of - school time provider networks, connecting sites to available community resources, and working closely with the state agency.

While Collins says he has House leadership support for cutting federal reimbursements to state Medicaid funding derived from counties in the sales tax, the Senate side is still debating how states would be impacted.

Equalizing federal reimbursement rates in the Hudson Valley is as much a political issue as a medical one.

Among the other priorities in the budget is a plan to bail out the city's public hospital network, recently re-named NYC Health + Hospitals, as it struggles to stay afloat amid decreased federal reimbursements for the uninsured patients who flock to its emergency rooms.

U.S. House Members Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler, in a Friday press conference outside Trump Tower, called for full federal reimbursement of New York City's security costs incurred in protecting Donald Trump and Trump Tower.