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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: This amendment amends the provisions governing opioid treatment programs in order to expand the types of eligible practitioners who can treat individuals and prescribe medications in medication-assisted treatment (MAT).
Summary: This amendment amends provisions governing behavioral health services to expand the eligible individuals who can supervise Peer Support Specialists (PSS).
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 amendment is to cover adult vaccines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and administered in accordance with recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and their administration, without cost sharing.
Summary: This SPA adds mandatory coverage of COVID-19 vaccine and administration, testing, and treatment benefits as required by Section 9811 of the American Rescue Plan Act.
Summary: The purpose of this SPA is to amend the provisions governing the Pharmacy Benefits Management program in order to remove references to specific over-the-counter (OTC) drugs that are covered under the State Plan.
Summary: The purpose of this SPA is to provide governing long-term personal care services (LT-PCS) in order to update and remove obsolete terminology and to ensure that consistent language is used.
Summary: CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to allow the state to implement temporary policies while returning to normal operations after the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to extend certain COVID-19 disaster relief provisions governing long-term personal care services currently authorized under disaster relief SPA LA TN 20-0004.
