Healthcare DIVE March 24, 2020
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 month allow states to eschew certain Medicaid requirements on physician enrollment and prior authorization as well as free up where care can be delivered and suspend certain nursing home screening requirements to lower administrative burden.
- Alabama, Arizona, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina and Virginia now have greenlit waivers, along with Florida and Washington, which were the first two approved last week.
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