Medicaid State Plan Amendments

This plan amendment assists hospitals by providing a temporary rate adjustment under the closure, merger, consolidation, acquisition, or restructuring of a health care provider.

This plan amendment authorizes state fiscal year 2024 Graduate Medical Education payment pools for new programs or expanded positions that began on or after July 1, 2020.

This plan amendment provides for a two percent inflationary increase to the per diem rates for both Specialty-Acute and Rehabilitation hospitals.

This plan amendment updates the minimum wage values to bring minimum wage up to the authorized final minimum wage of $15.00.

This plan amendment removes specific per diem rates for Comprehensive Behavioral Health Treatment (CBHT) services.

This state plan establishes reimbursement methodology for services rendered by pharmacists.

This SPA allows Maryland to cover select imported drugs due to shortages identified by the Food and Drug Administration, as well as to provide the reimbursement methodology for select prescribed drugs.

This amendment proposes adds adult dental benefits to the STEPS Alternative Benefit Plan (ABP) due to the expanded dental services in the Kansas Medicaid Plan.

This amendment adds adult dental benefits to the Working Healthy Alternative Benefit Plan (ABP) population due to the expanded dental services in the Kansas Medicaid Plan.

This amendment proposes to allow the Division of Medicaid to request an exemption from the federal requirement to contract with a Recovery Audit Contractor.