The normal practice is to take as a base what each program spent the previous year and then argue about incremental changes, rather than (as under zero-base budgeting) to consider each program in its totality.
As part of the program, he spent his major clinical year in Cooperstown, N.Y., where he saw patients longitudinally throughout his rotations.
Bananzadeh's deposition is heavily redacted, though at one point he describes the $1.1 billion figure as "a cost that captures the entire program spend from inception to the period of time where it stops," IEEE Spectrum reports.
Multiple regressions were performed controlling for time as a mentor in the program, hours spent mentoring, and number of protégés.
As displayed in the map below, state programs spent anywhere from between 0.5percentto6.7percentcent of the total prescription drug budgets on the medication, and states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA spent a higher proportion of their budgets on Sovaldi than those that didn't.
The chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense, Representative Jerry Lewis of California, said of the Navy workstation contract, "I don't think they have done some of the analysis as to the adequacy of the program to spend money as rapidly as they like".
As of last week, the program has spent about $1.68 billion on rebates for 111,271 completed solar PV installations of about 1.2 GW in rated solar PV capacity.
Most people associate Medicaid with the poor and working class, but historically the program has spent as much or more money on elderly and disabled people who qualify.
The New York City Campaign Finance Board yesterday proposed a way to allow candidates who pay for their own campaigns to participate in its campaign finance program, as long as they abide by the program's spending limits.
As part of the program, I first spent three weeks learning paleography: how to read and date medieval manuscripts.
The Young Adult Institute joined with other nonprofit providers to form a lobbying group, and, as the programs and spending multiplied, the relationship between the state and the providers gradually shifted.
