Increases the optional State supplementary payment levels.

The purpose of this SPA is to amend the Accountable Communities section of the State's approved Title XIX State Plan to remove the requirement that providers execute a MaineCare Provider Agreement to be a Lead Entity.

Provider Qualifications for Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Therapy, and Audiology.

This amendment allows transition from a manual method of identifying and adjusting claims subject to the three never events to a systematic approach in the Mississippi Medicaid Information System (MMIS).

This amendment allows transition from a manual method of identifying and adjusting claims subject to the three never events to a systematic approach in the Mississippi Medicaid Information System (MMIS) for Outpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System (OPPS).

This SPA removes barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and agents used to promote smoking cessation from the list of drugs the state Medicaid program may exclude from coverage or otherwise restrict in order to comply with the requirements of Section 502(a) of the Affordable care Act.

This amendment proposes to revise the Sovereign States Drug Consortium (SSDC) Supplemental Rebate Agreement (SRA) previously submitted to CMS on September 12, 2012, to allow supplemental rebates to be collected on coordinated care claims. This amendment also implements a uniform Preferred Drug List (PDL) for fee-for-service and coordinated care pharmacy claims.

This SPA revises the National Medicaid Pooling Initiative (NMPI) Supplemental Rebate Agreement (SRA).

This SPA revises the payments methodology for inpatient hospital services.

This amendment will revise the state's methods and standards for setting payment rates for inpatient and outpatient hospital services that furnished by out of State providers.