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Pandemic-Era Changes to Medicaid Home- and Community-Based ...

This issue brief describes how states used the PHE authorities to strengthen their HCBS programs, changes as the PHE ends, and the role of family caregivers in ...

Pandemic-Era Changes to Medicaid Home- and Community-Based ...

Pandemic-Era Changes to Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS): A Closer Look at Family Caregiver Policies

Medicaid HCBS State Policy Flexibilities During COVID - ASPE

Using Appendix K, states can make to make temporary changes to ... An Overview of Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services 1915(c) ...

Unwinding Watch: Tracking Medicaid Coverage as Pandemic ...

Our “Unwinding Watch” highlights key developments as states resume determinations on people's Medicaid eligibility.

Medicaid Renewals and Other Policy Changes due to the end of ...

States were permitted to request flexibilities in their Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) programs to support older adults and people with disabilities ...

Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services in the Wake of the ...

This article examines two major federal developments and state responses in HCBS options as a result of the pandemic.

Unwinding and Returning to Regular Operations after COVID-19

CIB: Ensuring Continuity of Coverage for Individuals Receiving Home and Community-Based Services (Posted 8/19/2024) ... Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Condition ...

American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Section 9817 | Medicaid

BackgroundThe COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has underscored the urgent need to reduce the reliance on institutional services and expand access to ...

medicaid section 1915(c)home and community-based - ASPE

KEY POINTS. • During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), states used Appendix K, a stand-alone appendix.

Understanding the Impacts of COVID Policy Changes on Access to ...

A statewide survey of families of people who received Medicaid funded home- and community-based (HCBS) long-term services and supports (LTSS) in

Public Health Emergency “Unwinding:” Changes to Medicaid ...

As a result, many older people and people with disabilities are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage. Disabled people and older adults who ...

Most States Plan to Continue Medicaid Home and Community ...

During the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), states received approval from the federal government to implement Appendix K amendments ...

CMS Waivers, Flexibilities, and the Transition Forward from the ...

In response to the challenges faced by hospitals because of COVID-19, CMS implemented the Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative, a flexibility ...

Evaluating COVID-19 Response Could Help CMS Prepare for ...

What GAO Found ... COVID-19 presented risks to Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) programs, where providers help beneficiaries ...

States Modify Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Waivers to ...

States Modify Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Waivers to Respond to COVID-19 · Continue at-home services but waive re-assessments and visits by outside staff; ...

Unwinding the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement

In March 2020, as part of COVID-19 relief enacted in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), Congress provided increased Medicaid ...

AND COMMUNITY- BASED SERVICES Evaluating COVID-19 ...

... Changes to Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services. Programs during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Temporary change Massachusetts.

FAQs on COVID-19's Potential Impact on Medicaid and Medicaid ...

Shift from adult day care to home-based care. States have moved quickly to suspend adult day care (ADC) and adult health center (AHC) operations in response to ...

Changes in US Medicaid Enrollment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Between January 2019 and September 2020, enrollment increased by 1.4 percentage points in nonexpansion states and 1.6 percentage points in ...

The Risk of Coverage Loss for Medicaid Beneficiaries as the COVID ...

Continuous Medicaid enrollment has allowed people — including many people of color — to retain coverage and get needed care during the pandemic.