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Medicaid State Plan Amendments

A Medicaid and CHIP state plan is an agreement between a state and the Federal government describing how that state administers its Medicaid and CHIP programs. It gives an assurance that a state will abide by Federal rules and may claim Federal matching funds for its program activities. The state plan sets out groups of individuals to be covered, services to be provided, methodologies for providers to be reimbursed and the administrative activities that are underway in the state.

When a state is planning to make a change to its program policies or operational approach, states send state plan amendments (SPAs) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for review and approval. States also submit SPAs to request permissible program changes, make corrections, or update their Medicaid or CHIP state plan with new information.

Persons with disabilities having problems accessing the SPA PDF files may call 410-786-0429 for assistance.

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Transmittal Number: AR-18-016
State: Arkansas
Summary: Allows beneficiaries who are eligible for Arkansas Medicaid healthcare benefits on a medical spend down basis and who are medically frail to have access to Tier 2 and Tier 3 Behavioral Health Services.
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Transmittal Number: AR-18-017
State: Arkansas
Summary: Offers Home and Community Based Services to individuals with a high level of behavioral health or developmental disability need.
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Transmittal Number: AR-18-012
State: Arkansas
Summary: Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to the state supplemental rebate agreement.
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Transmittal Number: AR-18-002
State: Arkansas
Summary: To allow delivery of Telemedicine services to all Arkansas beneficiaries.
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Transmittal Number: AR-18-005
State: Arkansas
Summary: This provides special consideration to border city university-affiliated pediatric teaching hospitals to utilize cost data in a manner consistent with the method used for identifying cost for private hospital access payments.
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Transmittal Number: AR-18-0010
State: Arkansas
Summary: This amendment proposes to delete Hysterectomy, Appendectomy, Uncomplicated Pediatric Pneumonia and Urinary Tract Infection Episodes of Care.
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Transmittal Number: AR-18-004
State: Arkansas
Summary: This combines the current Developmental Day Treatment Clinic Services (DDTCS) for children and Child Health Management Services (CHMS) into a single program designated as Early Intervention Day Treatment (EIDT).
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Transmittal Number: AR-18-009
State: Arkansas
Summary: This amendment was submitted to allow former Developmental Day Treatment Clinic Services (DDTCS) providers to continue to provide transportation as Early Intervention Day Treatment (EIDT) and Adult Developmental Day Treatment (ADDT) providers, and to allow former Child Health Management Services (CHMS) providers to provide transportation service as EIDT and ADDT providers without a Non-emergency Transportation (NET) contract.
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Transmittal Number: AR-18-007
State: Arkansas
Summary: This amendment was submitted to relfect that adults previously served by the Developmental Day Treatment Clinic Service Centers will now be served by the Adult Developmental Day Treatment (ADDT) programs, where participants will also be given the opportunity to receive nursing services with prior authorization.
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Transmittal Number: AR-18-008
State: Arkansas
Summary: This amendment was submitted to comply with all changes made to the Arkansas State Plan in July of 2017 regarding the implementation of thresholds for occupational, physical, and speech therapies.
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