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MACPAC Issues Brief on Implementation of the Home- and Community Based Services (HCBS) Settings Rule

MACPAC issued a brief in December with input from NASDDDS outlining the implementation of the HCBS settings rule to...
January 9, 2020cmcgraw@nasddds.org

CMS Plans TA Visits on STPs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is initiating visits to offer technical assistance to states regarding the State...
August 29, 2019Dan Berland

CMS Revises Guidance on Heightened Scrutiny for New Construction

CMS has revised guidance regarding heightened scrutiny under the HCBS Rule and new construction. States may now submit a...
August 29, 2019Dan Berland

NCI recommended as a LTSS Measure for the 2019-20 Medicaid Adult CORE Measure set

What Great News!  National Core Indicators (NCITM) has been formally recommended as a Long Term Services and Supports measure...
May 10, 2019Jeanine Zlockie

CMS Releases Guidance on Heightened Scrutiny

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a set of responses to Frequently Asked Questions...
April 4, 2019Jeanine Zlockie

Pennsylvania Receives Waiver Amendment Approvals

The Pennsylvania Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) received approvals of amendments to the ID/A waivers.
October 31, 2018Jeanine Zlockie

CMS Approves Two Waiver Renewals For Pa. with Big Changes to Day and Employment Supports

 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have approved ODP’s Consolidated and Person/Family Directed Support (PFDS)...
August 10, 2017Jeanine Zlockie

Maryland Proposing New Community Supports Waiver

Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) has designed a new Family Supports Waiver program that will provide individual and family...
August 10, 2017Jeanine Zlockie

Colorado Passes Bill Changing State Statute to Allow Additional Case Management Entities

The Colorado Office of Community Living is implementing conflict free case management through a bill passed through both chambers...
June 9, 2017Jeanine Zlockie

CMS Announces Additional 3 Years to Comply with HCBS Regulations

CMS released an informational bulletin noting that states will have an additional three years (until 2022) to comply with...
May 9, 2017Jeanine Zlockie

Toolkit to Assess Federal Medicaid Proposal

The State Health and Value Strategies Program and Manatt Health developed a toolkit to assist states in assessing the...
April 3, 2017Jeanine Zlockie

CMS Administrator Verma, HHS Secretary Price Issue Statement to Governors on Medicaid Flexibility

New Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Seema Verma and U.S. Department of Health and...
April 3, 2017Jeanine Zlockie

Four GOP Governors Call for New Approach to Medicaid Reform

Four GOP governors wrote congressional leaders saying that the AHCA’S approach to Medicaid would not work for states and...
March 20, 2017Dan Berland

CMS Administrator Verma, HHS Secretary Price Issue Statement to Governors on Medicaid Flexibility

The letter outlines a vision of enhanced flexibility for states and mentions "reasonable timelines" for HCBS rule implementation. 
March 20, 2017Dan Berland

CMS Issues Guidance on Wandering Behavior in HCBS Settings

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a set of FAQs that discuss strategies to ensure...
January 3, 2017Jeanine Zlockie

CMS RFI Seeks Input on Expanding HCBS

CMS has issued a RFI with a broad request for additional reforms and policy options to accelerate the...
November 16, 2016Dan Berland

Nebraska Holding “Let’s Talk Tour”

Nebraska is holding a “Let’s Talk Tour designed to gain additional stakeholder input on services to be provided through the...
October 21, 2016Jeanine Zlockie

CMS Suggests Approaches for Strengthening Home Care Workforce

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an Informational Bulletin (IB) that “highlights steps available to states,...
September 9, 2016Jeanine Zlockie

California Finds Teaching In-Home Caregiving Model Beneficial

California initiated a pilot program, training individuals providing in-home supports in CPR and first aid, as well infection control,...
September 8, 2016Jeanine Zlockie

Illinois Initiates HCBS-ACT Project

The Home and Community Based Services - Advocates Creating Transformation (HCBS-ACT) project will train people with developmental disabilities, their...
September 8, 2016Jeanine Zlockie