This time-limited state plan amendment responds to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to allow individuals who are evacuated or absent from the state due to the public health emergency and who intend to return to the state to continue to be residents of the state, extend eligibility redetermination timeframes for certain beneficiaries to 12 months, waive certain cost-sharing for COVID-19 related services, adjust certain state plan benefits, extend timelines for submission to CMS of cost reconciliation and settlement for school-based providers, and allow for the payment of additional therapeutic leave days for nursing facilities.
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