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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: Expands the community based provider agency options for Medicaid recipients who have been found through the PASRR process to need specialized add-on services. Additionally, amendments were made to behavioral support and day habilitation services descriptions to be consistent with state administrative rule language and updates language about settling locations.
Summary: CMS is approving this time-limited state plan amendment (SPA) to respond to the COVID-19 national emergency. The purpose of this amendment to (1) effective December 11, 2020, this SPA: (A) implements coverage of COVID-19 vaccine administration when provided by pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians, to the extent authorized pursuant to the PREP Act and (B) establishes reimbursement for COVID-19 vaccine administration at 100% of the Medicare rate for the pharmacy providers referenced above and on the applicable fee schedules (physician, home health agency, hospice, medical clinic, dialysis clinic, and family planning clinic); (2) effective from January 1, 2021 through February 28, 2021, implements a 2% rate increase for chronic disease hospitals; (3) effective from January 1, 2021 through February 28, 2021, implements a 5% rate increase for nursing homes and effective from March 1, 2021 through March 31, 2021, implements a 10% rate increase for nursing homes; and (4) clarifying language effective March 1, 2020 that (A) the coverage flexibility for laboratory services under 42 CFR 440.30(d) does not include self-collected COVID-19 tests for home use and (B) each laboratory testing code is priced at 100% of the applicable Medicare rate that is in effect on the date of service.
Summary: This Amendment increases payment for providers reference in Utah’s American Rescue (ARPA) Act Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Funding Spending Plan.
Summary: This amendment proposes a series of increases to the reimbursement rate for facilities licensed by the Department of Public Health under the
ID/DD Community Care Act as an ID/DD facility and medically complex for the developmentally disabled facilities licensed under the MC/DD Act.
Summary: proposes updates to Attachments 3.1-A and 3.1-B of the Medicaid State Plan to update the Person-Centered Medical
Home Plus (PCMH+) program’s quality measures, which are used as part of the calculation methodology for the individual pool and challenge pool shared savings payments. These updates are necessary to reflect various changes to the measures by the applicable measure stewards. These changes include removing quality measures that have been retired, incorporating changes to the measures that have been made by the measure stewards, and updating measures to new stewards as appropriate.
Summary: The primary purpose of this SPA is to remove health home program services which will be covered and reimbursed under the state plans Certified Community Behavioral Health (CCBH) services.
Proposes to move currently approved in-home peritoneal dialyses services from the clinic benefit to the home health and other licensed provider benefit without a change in reimbursement