Healthcare Innovation June 12, 2024
The two states are the first to provide diapers to young children covered by Medicaid
Extensions of 1115 Medicaid waivers recently approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for Delaware and Tennessee are the first to provide diapers to young children covered by Medicaid.
The extension of Delaware’s Diamond State Health Plan Demonstration will enable the state to provide three months of retroactive eligibility for all eligible Medicaid enrollees. The approval also adds three new benefits, which allow the state to: (1) Expand the state-funded pilot to provide home-delivered food and 80 diapers per week to postpartum members and babies, which will reach low-income postpartum members with disproportionately high rates of food insecurity and inequitable adverse maternal...
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