This page provides federal resources that are helpful during emergencies and disasters. We also created Medicaid & CHIP disaster preparedness toolkits to provide states and territories with additional disaster-related information.
Federal Disaster Resources
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted initial approval to the State of California for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 23, 2020, and subsequent approvals on May 8, 2020, and August 19, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on December 24, 2020, detailed additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for California's health care delivery system and requested a waiver or modification of those other requirements.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Minnesota for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 27, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on January 3, 2021 detailed a number of additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Minnesota and requested a waiver or modification of those additional requirements.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Alaska for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on April 2, 2020 and subsequent approvals on May 15, 2020, May 29, 2020, June 3, 2020, June 15, 2020, and August 19, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on December 18, 2020 detailed additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Alaska and requested a waiver or modification of those additional requirements.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Massachusetts for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 26, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on July 9, 2020 detailed additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Massachusetts and requested a waiver or modification of those additional requirements.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Nevada for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on April 7, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on December 15, 2020 detailed additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Nevada and requested a waiver or modification of those additional requirements.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Kentucky for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 25, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on December 17, 2020 detailed additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Kentucky and requested a waiver or modification of those additional requirements.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Oregon for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 25, 2020, May 8, 2020, August 20, 2020, September 16, 2020 and December 2, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on November 25, 2020 detailed an additional federal requirement that also poses issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Oregon and requested a waiver or modification of that additional requirement.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Oregon for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 25, 2020, May 8, 2020, August 20, 2020, and September 16, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on September 23, 2020 detailed a number of additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Oregon and requested a waiver or modification of those additional requirements related to Oregon’s Wildfires Public Health Emergency (PHE), declared on September 15, 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Texas for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 30, 2020 and subsequently on May 22, 2020, July 23, 2020 and September 30, 2020. Your initial request submitted to CMS on March 25, 2020 detailed two federal requirements that pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Texas that we are now able to approve.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted an initial approval to the State of Montana for multiple section 1135 flexibilities on March 30, 2020. Your follow-up communication to CMS on November 2, 2020 detailed a number of additional federal requirements that also pose issues or challenges for the health care delivery system in Montana and requested a waiver or modification of those additional requirements.
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