States Receive More Time to Bring HCBS Settings into Compliance

This week, our In Focus section comes to us from HMA Senior Consultant Rachel Patterson, MPA, of our Washington, D.C., office. Rachel provides an update on this week’s news that The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the timeline for states to comply with a 2014 rule defining the settings for Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS). On May 9, 2017, the CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services issued an Informational Bulletin extending the deadline for states to demonstrate compliance with the settings criteria by three years, to March 17, 2022. It does not extend the deadline for final CMS approval of Statewide Transition Plans, which must still be approved by March 17, 2019. The bulletin makes no changes to the underlying rule, nor indicates plans to do so.

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