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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.
Summary: Increases non-MAGI group resource limits, make adjustments to certain income and resource disregards, and memorialize certain MAGI related elections.
Summary: This amendment adopts provisions governing incurred medical and remedial care expenses in the determination of financial eligibility for the Medical Assistance Program in order to deduct expenses incurred for necessary medical and remedial care, subject to the reasonable limits, from the individual's income when calculating patient liability to an institution and to limit the time institutions have to report these expenses.
Summary: This plan amendment updates the provisions governing qualifying criteria and reimbursement methodology for high Medicaid utilization academic hospitals in order to increase payments for inpatient hospital services.
Summary: The purpose of this SPA is to adopt provisions governing qualifying criteria and reimbursement methodology for high Medicaid utilization academic hospitals in order to increase payments for outpatient hospital services.
Summary: This SPA is to amend the provisions governing children’s and adult mental health services to expand the mental health professionals eligible to provide therapeutic services to include provisionally licensed professional counselors, provisionally licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed master social workers.
Summary: This plan amendment will pay a $12 direct care add‐on to private (non-state) owned intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID) for increased costs related to retaining and hiring direct care staff.
Summary: This plan amendment edits the provisions governing reimbursement for hospice services in order to ensure that the current payment methodology aligns with CMS requirements.
