Which proposes to reduce the fee schedule rates by 2.5% with a proposed effective date of July 1, 2011.

Implement nursing facility provider tax.

Revising the State's Tribal consultation process. This SPA changes the current Tribal consultation response time frame language from 60 days to 30 days.

Provides for Medicaid coverage of comprehensive tobacco cessation services for pregnant women, including both counseling and pharmacotherapy, without cost sharing.

Payment for nursing facility leave days (Bedhold).

Payment for Nursing Facilities Leave Days (Bedhold).

Medicaid Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) Program.

This PACE program will provide additional long-term care options for eligible individuals, age 55 and older, by offering a comprehensive array of Medicare & Medicaid institutional and community-based services for those who meet a nursing facility level of care and live in the designated service area of a PACE provider.

Estimated Acquisition Cost (EAC).

Requesting approval of their expansion of managed care statewide under the authority granted at Section 1932 (a) of the Social Security Act (The Act), removal of the exemption for TPL and Katie Beckett clients and clarifying elements of the enrollment process and to add non-emergency transportation to the list of MCO excluded services.