Updated the State Plan language regarding the Community First Choice program to implement the provisions of the recently updated collective bargaining agreement between the state and the union representing personal care attendants (PCAs).

Extend full Medicaid benefits to all enrollees in the Pregnant Women eligibility group.

Renewing Idaho’s Home and Community Base Services (HCBS)1915, Yes Empowerment Services (YES) State Plan Benefit, targeting children with serious emotional disturbances (SED). This benefit will provide respite services for children and youth who have a substantial functional impairment that is measured by and documented through the use of a standardized instrument conducted or supervised by a qualified independent assessor clinician.

This SPA provides North Dakota with approval to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum coverage to individuals enrolled in its Medicaid program.

This SPA provides Alabama with approval to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum coverage to individuals enrolled in its Medicaid program.

To amend the state's paper alternative single streamlined application.

CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency.  The purpose of this amendment is to implement a rate increase for providers of Personal Care Services (PCS) and Private Duty Nursing (PDN) services under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit.