This amendment provides peer recovery support for Medicaid beneficiaries diagnosed with substance use disorder.

This amendment seeks an exception to the Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) requirements.

CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency.  The purpose of this amendment is an amendment to disregard monies received by any member or applicant as part of a settlement agreement with residents of the Holyoke Soldier's Home for the purpose of determining eligibility.

CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency.  The purpose of this amendment is to update housing supportive services provider qualification criteria, provide reimbursement for retroactive provider rate changes, to increase the personal needs allowance, and to waiver pharmacy signature requirements.

CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency.  The purpose of this amendment is to allow for lump sum payments to select providers.

This state plan amendment updates Long-Term Care Reimbursement provisions related to provider submission requirements when submitting annual Fair Rental Value (FRV) surveys, specifies that the state may amend FRV survey data based on audit results, removes a transitional rate provision in place since 2016 that reimbursed at the greater of a provider's prospective payment rate or its previous cost-based rate, increases funding to providers to establish a legislatively mandated $15.00 minimum wage, and updates State Plan UPL methodology to specify the use of the most recent cost reports for 2022

This state plan amendment eliminates certain hospital rate enhancements (AREs) from the state plan and updates Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) reimbursement rates for hospital inpatient services in order to adjust rates for providers that previously received AREs and participated or did not participate in year one of the state's Directed Payment Program (DPP).

This amendment proposes to change the eligibility rules for the Former Foster Care Children eligibility groups, as enacted by the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opiod Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities (SUPPORT) Act, Pub. L. No. 115-217, section 1002.

To extend the state's exemption to the Recove1y Audit Contractor (RAC) program requirements for the two-year period beginning April 1, 2023 through April 1, 2025.

This amendment is to add coverage and reimbursement of community violence prevention services performed by certified violence prevention professionals as a new benefit within the preventive services benefit category.