Sentences with phrase «for reimbursement funds»

Republicans have typically proposed turning Medicaid into a block grant program, which could eliminate schools from eligibility for reimbursement funds.

Not exact matches

A class action lawsuit now seeks reimbursement for attendees» travel funds as well.

As Wallerstein sees it, there's only one for corporations: «The way the IRS's rules are set up for health - care reimbursement FSAs, an employee could decide to contribute, say, $ 2,000 over the course of a year, spend that money on medical procedures during the first two months of the year, and then quit, leaving his company holding the bag for any funds that hadn't yet been deducted from his paycheck.»

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

An ex-charity boss accused of a # 700,000 fraud said he banked 60 cheques as reimbursement for paying suppliers from his own funds.

Read details about how waivers and / or reimbursements affect the results for each fund.

An indemnity design is typically more advantageous than reimbursement because funds from the policy can be accessed for any need, without receipt, once the insured is certified as qualifying for coverage.

* Total annual Pax Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund expenses, gross of any fee waivers or reimbursements for Individual Investor Class and Institutional Class are 0.99 % and 0.74 % respectively as of 5/1/2015 prospectus.

As for their salaries, the «operation of the program» is funded through (a) federal reimbursement, which is derived from taxpayer dollars and (b) cash payments from district parents who can afford to pay for all or a portion of their children's meals.

There is an obvious disparity between the funds made available by the federal government to support free meals for low - income students and the revenue collected by school districts (from federal «paid» meal reimbursements and student payments) to support the very same meals when served to children at higher income levels.

If the price charged for paid meals, combined with the federal per - meal subsidy, covered the costs of these meals (or equaled the federal per - meal reimbursement for free meals), more funds could be put toward providing more nutritious meals, providing better compensation and professional support to food service staff, or other improvements that would benefit children.

Even if reimbursement rate increases were tied to meeting enhanced nutritional requirements, the full benefit of the additional funds would be realized only if reimbursements for free and reduced price meals were not siphoned off to keep prices low for paid meals or competitive foods.

Often, the cost of the snacks is less than the USDA reimbursement, and Dairy Dollars for Schools even provides funds to help you implement the program.

While most experts agree that the HHFKA's «6 cents per lunch» reimbursement increase was insufficient to pay for healthier school food, the Noem / Miller approach is not to ask Congress for a funding increase but instead to allow schools to go back to serving kids the less healthy food they're used to eating.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

This reimbursement money may make a small percentage of an affluent school's lunch program or almost all of the funding for schools in high - poverty areas.

The program, which began as the Child Care Food Program in 1968, provides funding for these foods, in the form of reimbursements, to a variety of child care, after - school, and... Read More

Several participate in NSLP, with Choicelunch offering a reduced price for eligible students and the difference between the NSLP reimbursement and our reduced price funded through the full paid meals.

New York City has sought all forms of funding for meal reimbursement and is now eligible to receive the highest reimbursement from the federal government through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).

This investment will allow us to improve the quality of our School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, increase the number of kids participating, and ensure that schools have the resources they need to make program changes, including training for school food service workers, upgraded kitchen equipment, and additional funding for meal reimbursements for schools that are enhancing nutrition and quality.

In the meantime, while the pending child nutrition legislation in Congress seeks to raise federal reimbursement for school meals by a mere six cents — rather than the one dollar advocated by reformers like Chef Ann — we need to exploit every opportunity to bring more funds to schools.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

Pete has supported legislation to increase Medicare reimbursements for screening and diagnostic mammographies; fund research centers to study the relationship between the environment and breast cancer; and require insurance companies to guarantee at least 48 hours hospital care after a mastectomy.»

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.

Some non-profits who rely on state - set reimbursement rates, for example, have been seeking state funds to cover their increased costs.

Last year Mr. Martinez ran into trouble with the City Campaign Finance Board for submitting, in classic Uptown style, «self - created, non-contemporaneous» vendor receipts in order to receive matching fund reimbursement for non-existing expenses... okay maybe his campaign just lost the receipts... still, I would love to see what the forged ones look like.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

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

Commissioners are looking at spending $ 94,000 for a used engine ladder truck, plus $ 51,000 for a used pumper tanker, then selling a tanker for revenue so the amount they'd need to use from an existing reserve fund would end up in the $ 40,000 or under range, after reimbursement from the existing tanker's sale.

A lower reimbursement rate for some providers would lead to chaos and inequity in the early childhood system by cutting funds from community based organizations that provide care and education for New York's children.

Cuomo said the DSH cut «is so drastic we will not able to fund any public hospital at 100 percent» and will impact hospitals that aid the uninsured or provide reimbursement for Medicaid loses across upstate and downstate New York, including SUNY Upstate, SUNY Downstate and SUNY Stony Brook.

Velazquez highlighted the provisions in the American Healthcare Act, which the House GOP passed yesterday, which would deny New York federal reimbursement for Medicaid funds it raises from upstate and Long Island counties.

In addition, the document shall include a clear and detailed presentation of the proposed sources of funding for such programs or functions, including the amounts to be funded directly by County appropriations, other governmental grants, reimbursements or contributions, and revenues raised directly as a result of program activity.

More than 4 years after Superstorm Sandy, homeowners are still struggling to return to their homes due to construction and funding delays, and missing this deadline could mean that homeowners will lose their opportunity for reimbursement of unexpected costs related to elevation.

At least 11 school districts that originally planned to apply for state pre-K grants won't seek the funding, and it's likely more will decide against participating as local administrators struggle with the timing and reimbursement structure of the program.

Nugent said any funds received by his client represented either a reimbursement for a campaign or office expenditure or a deposit that allowed her to replenish the petty cash supply.

That means greater disclosure of business and law clients from legislators» side jobs, a ban on the personal use of campaign funds, greater safeguards for per diem reimbursement, pension forfeiture for lawmakers convicted of public corruption and greater disclosure by independent expenditure campaign accounts.

In the past couple of years, he said, she's secured $ 162,000 in grant funds, benefiting flood analysis studies and other town projects, which include streamlining a solar application process, and finalizing a six - figure FEMA hurricane claim to pay local contractors who have been waiting four years for reimbursement, among other accomplishments.

The battle for increased reimbursement will play out over the next 90 days as the budget is negotiated, and against the backdrop of a state - imposed Medicaid cap, uncertainty over the future of federal Medicaid funding and cries from long - term care facilities and home health care providers, which are also pleading for higher reimbursements.

According to Chairman Christopher St. Lawrence, problems arose when insurance companies mistakenly sent reimbursement checks meant for ambulance services to patients, who were notified of the error but did not always return the funds and had to be brought to small claims court to recover the money.

Collins» amendment, which excludes large municipalities such as New York City, would bar federal reimbursements for state Medicaid funds raised from local governments, shifting roughly $ 2.3 billion in Medicaid spending from the counties to the state.

Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr., already under indictment on federal bribery charges, is now being investigated by Albany County DA David Soares and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for allegedly claiming taxpayer - funded reimbursement of bogus expenses.

«In light of the unprecedented and extraordinary costs associated with providing the necessary level of protection to the President - elect and his family during the period of transition and beyond, which are not otherwise reimbursable through currently available federal funding sources, we urge Congress to appropriate funds to reimbursement the NYPD for its expenses in this endeavor,» they wrote.

As casino revenues will only be realized from taxes paid by operating casinos, probably years away, look for Hein to advance funding for the Ellenville Million from the county's coffers and then to dun the state for reimbursement.

The de Blasio administration, for its part, said that out of the $ 120 million it paid to more than 5,700 applicants through its Build It Back reimbursement program, the audit has questioned only $ 32,000 in payments as ineligible — an amount that only comes out to less than one - third of 1 percent of distributed funds.

Districts receive other state funds, like reimbursement for construction or BOCES funding, but foundation aid is the largest source of funding from the state for a district.

Cuomo proposed changes to Medicaid reimbursements as well as the funding for CUNY's senior colleges that amounted to an $ 800 million tab for de Blasio, whose feud with Cuomo was reaching its peak after the mayor publicly accused the governor of being driven by «vendetta.»

«For 50 years, every time the state has increased judges» pay, they have funded DAs» salary increases in the form of reimbursement to counties,» the state Association of Counties said in a release.

But instead of going back into the water quality fund, those reimbursements were being placed into the general fund to be used for any county purpose.

The spending plan for the 2018 - 19 fiscal year has nearly $ 90 million in last - minute funding including hurricane - related items that are contingent on federal reimbursements.