The Department of Children and Families determines eligibility for Medicaid. Medicaid may be authorized. for up to three months prior to the date of application provided an applicant has unpaid medical bill(s) for. one or more of the three months preceding the month of application. This is known as retroactive Medicaid.
The costliest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic was Hurricane Katrina, which struck the coastlines of Mississippi and Louisiana after brushing the tip of Florida, in August 2005, causing $108 billion (2005 USD) in property damage.
Related: Hurricane Harvey cost estimate: $40 billion. In Louisiana, some refineries remained closed for months after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. If the Texas Gulf Coast sustains Katrina-like damage it would be devastating to not only our economy but the U.S. economy, said Jim Blackburn, co-director severe storm center at Rice University in Houston.