Manatt Health March 25, 2020
The Big Picture
On Sunday, March 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a suite of tools to help state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) agencies respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tools are designed to streamline and simplify the process whereby states request, and CMS approves, temporary changes to state Medicaid and CHIP programs using both waiver and state plan authorities. CMS pledged its intent to act quickly on requests that are consistent with the new template “checklists” in the toolkit, and to work with states to consider additional requests. To expedite implementation of the various flexibilities described below, CMS also is waiving otherwise applicable public notice and budget neutrality requirements and permitting states...
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