Nearly 2 dozen states now have Medicaid waivers for coronavirus response

Healthcare DIVE March 24, 2020
Rebecca Pifer

UPDATE: March 26, 2020: CMS has approved 10 more state waivers this week, bringing the total to 23. All of the new approvals now have authority to suspend pre-admission screening for nursing facilities. Oregon, North Dakota and Missouri joined Washington state in gaining the ability to change Medicaid rates, premiums and cost-sharing amounts without public notice. The other new states receiving waivers are Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and South Dakota.

Dive Brief:

• The Trump administration Monday approved 11 additional state waivers to expand Medicaid flexibility to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., bringing the sum total of OK’d waivers to 13.
• The waivers allowed under President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency earlier this...

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