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A Medicaid and CHIP state plan is an agreement between a state and the Federal government describing how that state administers its Medicaid and CHIP programs. It gives an assurance that a state will abide by Federal rules and may claim Federal matching funds for its program activities. The state plan sets out groups of individuals to be covered, services to be provided, methodologies for providers to be reimbursed and the administrative activities that are underway in the state.
When a state is planning to make a change to its program policies or operational approach, states send state plan amendments (SPAs) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for review and approval. States also submit SPAs to request permissible program changes, make corrections, or update their Medicaid or CHIP state plan with new information.
Persons with disabilities having problems accessing the SPA PDF files may call 410-786-0429 for assistance.
Summary: allows the Arkansas Department of Human Services to amend their Long Term Care reimbursement manual to update its payment methodology for skilled nursing facilities. These revisions were necessary due to changes in the skilled nursing facility standards over the past several years.
Summary: This amendment proposes to allow providers of Early Intervention Day Treatment (EIDT) and Adult Developmental Day Treatment (ADDT) services to provide transportation to and from their facilities to their clients. It also updates the payment methodology to be consistent with Arkansas' methodology for other transportation
services.
Summary: increases occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech-language pathology services by sixteen percent on April 9, 2022 and fifteen percent on April 1, 2023.
Summary: This amendment is to add School-Based Services, which allows the State Medicaid Agency to reimburse local education agencies (LEAs) for providing health related services to Medicaid eligible students in a school-based setting.
Summary: This SPA eliminates the “deprivation” requirement relating to dependent children living with individuals who seek Medicaid on the basis or being parents and other caretaker relatives.
Summary: This amendment is to comply with mandatory Medicaid coverage of routine patient costs furnished in connection with participation in qualifying clinical trials.
Summary: Authorizes the state to enter in Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) rebate agreements with drug manufacturers for drugs provided under the Medicaid program. This SPA also allows the state to join a multi-state Preferred Drug List pool.
Summary: CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment is to temporarily eliminate the "Deprivation" requirement relating to dependent children living with individuals who seek Medicaid on the basis of being parents and other caretaker relatives.
Summary: This amendment proposes allows pharmacists to enroll individually as atypical providers to prescribe and administer specified drugs, and test and screen for certain health conditions.