Medicaid State Plan Amendments

To add transportation as an allowable rural health clinic service and dietician services as allowable rural health clinic and federally qualified health center services.

CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency.  The purpose of this amendment is to rescind SPA AK-22-0014, which temporarily extended the flexibility of a 10% rate increase for providers of Title XIX HCBS services effective 4/30/23. Effective May 1, 2023, AK 23-0004, will permanently implement the 10% increase plus the rebased amount for each of the listed Title XIX state plan Home and Community-Based Services: personal care, targeted case management, and 1915(k) Community First Choice Services, which replaces the AK 23-0005 rescission amendment.

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 align the resumption of premiums with the end of the unwinding period and to assign dates to the temporarily extended suspension of member copays and premiums.

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 availability of hospital presumptive eligibility (HPE) to non-MAGI individuals.

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 gradually decrease the enhanced supplemental payments during the period of April 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023 for Inpatient & Outpatient Supplemental Payments Post-PHE Unwind (Safety Net Assessment Fund).

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 gradually decrease the enhanced supplemental payments during the period of April 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023 for supplemental payments for Small Rural Disproportionate Share Hospitals.

This amendment adds medication-assisted treatment to the Alternative Benefit Plan.

This state plan amendment implements a 3.5% inflationary increase for Personal Care Services.

The purpose of this SPA is to amend the provisions governing home health services to align reimbursement with the Louisiana Medicaid fee schedule.

CMS is issuing this technical correction package for LA-23-0029 to exclude page 2a which is being deleted and to include pages 4 and 5 which were inadvertently excluded from the approval package.

This amendment is to add authority for the Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) Primaty Care Case Management Entity (PCCMe) program to provide payments to fee-for-service (FFS) providers on behalf of the State, as described by 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 438.2.