Messages from the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services
Upcoming Calls and Webinars Today! CMS Innovation Center Medicare Quality Payment Program Year 2 Final Rule - All-Payer Combination Option Webinar On Wednesday, November 29th at 3:00 p.m. ET, the CMS Innovation Center will host an overview webinar on the Medicare Quality Payment Program Year 2...
Recent Releases and Announcements Medicaid & CHIP September 2017 Application, Eligibility, and Enrollment Data Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the September 2017 monthly report on state Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility...
QMB Remittance Advice Issue CMS is alerting you to an issue where states and other payers secondary to Medicare aren’t able to process some claims directly billed by providers due to patient responsibility deductible and coinsurance amounts on the Medicare Remittance Advice (RA) showing zero....
Recent Releases and Announcements Office of Minority Health Roadmap to Behavioral Health! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) in partnership with Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released The Roadmap to Behavioral...
Recent Releases and Announcements SMDL: Strategies to Address the Opioid Epidemic As part of the Department-wide effort to combat the ongoing opioid crisis, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is providing additional flexibilities to help states improve access to and quality of...
Recent Releases and Announcements Annual Reassignments for Certain Low-Income Subsidy Eligible Individuals Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an informational bulletin to provide an update on the next steps in the processes reassignments for certain low-income...
Recent Releases and Announcements FAQs: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Final Rule for Medicaid and CHIP Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Rule...
Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program (IAP) Register Now: Medicaid Value-Based Payment Approaches and Key Design Considerations National Learning Webinar (October 5, 2017) To assist Medicaid and CHIP agencies, CMS’s Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program (IAP) will host a state...
Recent Releases and Announcements CMS Reveals New Medicare Card Design Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave the public its first look at the newly designed Medicare card. The new Medicare card contains a unique, randomly-assigned number that replaces the current...
Recent Releases and Announcements Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Template for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the CHIP State Plan template to facilitate state efforts in submission of a...