Statistics
Quick Facts About DSS
State of Missouri, Department of Social Services
State Fiscal Year 2007
| Number of people eligible for MO HealthNet(1) services | 895,899 |
| MO HealthNet(1) dollars spent in state fiscal year 2007(2) | $4,931.3 million |
| Estimated portion of $4,931.3 million that was federal dollars | $3,037.2 million |
| MO HealthNet(1) fee for service payments for inpatient hospital services | $571.2 million |
| MO HealthNet(1) fee for service payments for physician services | $343.6 million |
| MO HealthNet(1) fee for service payments for nursing home services | $786.6 million |
| MO HealthNet(1) fee for service payments for pharmacy services | $589.8 million |
| MO HealthNet(1) managed care payments | $843.8 million |
| Child support collections (IV-D and non-IV-D) (3) | $775.2 million |
| Average monthly temporary assistance families | 43,563 |
| Total temporary assistance payments | $122.5 million |
| Average monthly food stamp benefit recipients | 816,225 |
| Total food stamp benefits received | $761.2 million |
| Children involved in hotline reports | 75,496 |
| Children with substantiated abuse or neglect | 7,115 |
| Children with family assessments | 38,802 |
| Average monthly children in custody | 10,571 |
| Children adopted | 1,150 |
| Total Children’s Services expenditures | $181.4 million |
| Average monthly children receiving subsidized child care(4) | 39,456 |
| Child care expenditures (4) | $142.9 million |
| Youths committed | 1,271 |
| Average monthly youths in DYS custody | 1,690 |
| Youth Treatment Services/Juvenile Court Diversion Expenditures | $55.5 million |
(1) In September 2007 Medicaid/MC+ was renamed MO HealthNet
(2) Excludes Buy-In
(3) Distributed collections
(4) Includes subsidized block grant children in Family Centered Services/Alternative Care/Children's Treatment Services/Intensive In-Home Services,
Adoption Subsidy, Income Maintenance unduplicated within each fund, across funds and county
01/23/08
