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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: CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to implement a rate increase for personal care assistant (PCA) services.
Summary: updates the performance standards, presumptive eligibility time period, application, and training material for hospital presumptive eligibility
Summary: CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to add additional payment methodologies for home health and private duty nursing services.
Summary: This time-limited state plan amendment responds to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to allow the face-to-face contact required by qualified providers of Early Intensive Development and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) services to occur via telehealth, which may include communication by telephone.
Summary: This time-limited state plan amendment responds to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is allow required home visits to be conducted remotely using telephonic or other electronic means for qualified professionals (QPs) supervising persons who receive PCA Choice services.
Summary: This SPA updates the nursing facility rates as follows:
Establishes a new property payment rate setting methodology for nursing homes that are approved for a moratorium.
Modifies the rate setting formula for bed relocations
Modifies the rate setting formula used to set rates for the consolidation of two or more nursing facilities for consolidations.
Adds building assessment costs for pre-approved clean energy projects to the pass-through portion of the payment rate on a time-limited basis.
Modifies the interim and settle-up rate setting for new buildings.
Summary: This time-limited state plan amendment responds to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to adopt the following less restrictive income methodologies: Disregard from income, any payment made by a state, local or tribal government to relieve the adverse economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for certain eligibility groups, and Disregard from assets the payments of a state, local or tribal government to relieve the adverse economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic that are retained following the month of receipt during the disaster period, and/or retained following the disaster period for certain eligibility groups.
