The materials encompass checklists for the 1115 Medicaid Demonstration waiver and the 1135 waiver, as well as templates for the 1915(c) Appendix K regarding home and community-based services and the Medicaid Disaster State Plan Amendment. The guidance for the 1115 Medicaid demonstration wa...
Waivers and exemptions available, but ability to obtain them unclear Compliance with facility assessment changes required by August 8, 2024 In a long-anticipated rulesubmitted for public inspectionon April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the minimum...
May 2008 Report: CMS should encourage states to conduct mortality reviews for individ- uals with developmental disabilities. http://www.gao.gov/new .items/d08529.pdf. Accessed September 8, 2010.Government Accountability Office. Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers: CMS Should Encourage States ...
The changes facilitate faster processing of state requests to make program or benefit changes to their Medicaid program through the state plan amendment and section 1915 waiver review process. "With faster processing times and earlier communication, states now have much greater ability to ...
On August 2, 2023, CMS wrote a letter to state Medicaid Directors explaining that states can continue their home-and community-based services (HCBS) Appendix K waivers past November 11, 2023, when the COVID-19 PHE-era waivers are currently set to expire. The Appendix K waivers are valid ...
State Medicaid agencies should assess their automatic renewal systems for errors. If they discover issues, they should take four steps. First, they should pause their procedural terminations. The hiatus should remain active until states have fixed the error. ...
Some previous Medicaid waivers involving work requirements have not fared well. Last February, afederal appeals court struck downopens in a new tab or windowa Medicaid work requirement plan in Arkansas, calling the decision to allow such requirements "arbitrary and capricious" because it failed to ...
. Approval of this demonstration, concurrently with a new 1915(c) waiver, will enable the state to create a new HCBS program and expand coverage to beneficiaries who are currently on the waiting list for the Intellectual Disability (ID) and Living at Home (LAH) 1915(c) HCBS waivers . . ...
states would pay annually in advance for the anticipated utilization of the optional VCI Hub service. However, State Medicaid andCHIPagencies could request federal financial participation for their share of the costs. In addition, states may receive a 75% federal match for their Medicaid system op...
while the Biden-Harris administration focusing on expanding coverage and addressing SDOH. For example, while the Trump administration approved 13 state work requirement waivers, the Biden-Harris administration withdrew all previously approved work requirement waivers. The Biden-Harris administration also gener...