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Effective January 01, 2021, this amendment eliminates the resource standards for the following Medicare Savings Plan categories: Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries, Specified Low-income Medicare Beneficiaries; and Qualified Individuals.
Effective 10/01/2020, this amendment updates the methods and standards used to revise the payment rates for acute outpatient psychiatric and substance abuse outpatient hospitals.
Effective 10/01/2020 this amendment updates the reimbursement methodology for privately owned psychiatric and substance use treatment hospital services for fiscal year (FY) 2021.
Effective 10/01/2020, this amendment updates the reimbursement methodology for privately owned chronic disease and rehabilitation inpatient hospital services for fiscal year (FY) 2021.
Effective 11/01/2019 this amendment clarifies that substance use disorder (SUD) early intervention services provided by a SUD agency are covered and SUD treatment services may be provided in an institution for mental disease (IMD).
Effective 02/01/2021 for a two-year period only, with a termination date of 01/31/2023,this amendment provides an exception to the Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor program.