Amends the provisions governing inpatient hospital services and ambulatory surgical centers in order to provide for reimbursement of laboratory testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) separately from inpatient hospital per diem payments and ambulatory surgical center flat fee reimbursement amounts.

Rebases nursing facility rates.

Implements nursing facility rate increases for state fiscal years 2022 and 2023.

Increase inpatient per diem rates for private free-standing chronic disease and private psychiatric hospitals.

Adds peer support services as a Medi-Cal Rehabilitative Mental Health Service and include peer support specialists as provider type

This SPA, effective January 1, 2022, authorizes supplemental payments for select preventive dental services and dental exam services, and adds Caries Risk Assessment (CRA) and Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) services to the dental fee schedule.

The proposed amendment updates the Home Health fee schedules.

This amendment proposes to implement temporary policies, which are different from those policies and procedures otherwise applied under your Medicaid state plan, during the period of the Presidential and Secretarial emergency declarations related to the COVID- 19 outbreak (or any renewals thereof).

This amendment proposes to (1) clarify the different types of encounters when reimbursement is made for more than one encounter performed on the same days; (2) adds requirements for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) mobile units; and (3) adds language to refer to Attachment 3.1-A Introductory Pages for coverage of telehealth services to be in compliance with the Mississippi Code Annotated as amended by Senate Bill 2799, effective July 1, 2021.

1) Clarify the different types of encounters and when more than one encounter is performed on the same day, 2) Add the requirements for RHC mobile units, and 3) add language to refer to Attachment 3.1-A Introductory Pages for coverage of telehealth services to be incompliance with Miss. Code Ann. as amended by Senate Bill 2799, effective July 1, 2021.