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AUGUSTA - Lawmakers have a week longer than they thought to avoid running out of money for MaineCare payments, due to two consecutive weeks of lower-than-expected payouts to providers. But despite the reprieve, members of the Appropriations Committee still hope to vote out a total budget for the rest of 2009 as well as 2010-11 on Monday.
About three weeks ago, the weekly payout from the state to service providers was $66 million, but for the past two weeks those payments have dropped to below $60 million, said Ryan Low, commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services.See the full content of this document
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State Budget Work Progresses; Deadline Extended
"So the two weeks of being lower than expected has allowed us to hit the next cycle payment, due M...
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