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MD-20-0004

Expands the categories of providers allowed to order home health services to include nurse practitioners, and additionally revises the SPA language to reflect compliance with updated HH regulations and EVV requirements. 

ND-20-0024

Amends the State Plan to remove page T1 from the State Plan which allowed North Dakota to conduct presumptive eligibility for the month of January 2014. 

Section 1135 Flexibilities - Pennsylvania Coronavirus Disease 2019 (March 24, 2020 Initial Communication)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Pennsylvania for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 27, 2020. Your initial 1135 request detailed a number of additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Pennsylvania and requested a waiver or modification of those additional requirements.

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Section 1135 Waiver Flexibilities - New York Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Second Request)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of New York for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 26, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on July 17, 2020 detailed a number of additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in New York and requested a waiver or modification of those additional requirements.

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DC-20-0007

CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to increase reimbursement to ASARS providers to support additional costs related delivery of services during the COVID-19 public health emergency effective March 1, 2020.

MT-20-0005

apply a census income disregard for Medicaid eligibility groups subject to non-MAGI income methodology, and to migrate eligibility requirements already approved for those non-MAGI eligibility groups into the state plan. Additionally, this state plan amendment revises the MAGI
methodology to account for reasonably predictable