Substance-used Disorder (SUD) Health Home to add specialized SUD treatment and support services for Medicaid beneficiaries

Oklahoma's Annual Rebasing of Rates for regular nursing facilities 

CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment (SPA) to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment to disregard income, resources, and a build-up of assets as assistance from a federal, state, local or tribal government for aged, blind and disabled populations.

CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment (SPA) to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment to temporarily include retainer payments to address emergency-related issues.

We have reviewed the proposed Colorado State Plan Amendment (SPA) to Attachment 4.19-B of your state plan, which was submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 01, 2021. This plan amendment provides a 2.5% rate increase for outpatient hospital services.

This amendment proposes to add medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as a mandatory benefit in the Medicaid state plan. This letter is to inform you that New Jersey’s Medicaid SPA Transmittal Number #21-0003 was approved on September 23, 2021 with an effective date of October 1, 2020, until September 30, 2025, pursuant to 1905(a)(29) of the Social Security Act and Section 1006(b) of the SUPPORT Act.

This amendment proposes to allow the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to make the following modifications to the Mississippi State Plan: (1) update coverage reimbursement of targeted case management (TCM) in order to align with the regulations at 42 CFR §§ 440.169 and 441.18; (2) update the fees for TCM for high-risk pregnant women to align with the fees in effect on July 1, 2021; and (3) remove the five percent reimbursement reduction effective July 1, 2021.

This State Plan Amendment (SPA) 21-0039 is being submitted to allow the Division of Medicaid (DOM) to cover and reimburse for wraparound services under the targeted case management benefit, effective July 1, 2021. Under the targeted case management rules, services must be billed separately from case management services. The Division of Medicaid is submitting this SPA to cover wraparound services as a targeted case management benefit that will be reimbursed a monthly rate separate from direct care services included in the beneficiary’s plan of care.