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State DRA Information

CMS Guidance on DRA

• CMS Final Rule Allowing States to Create Alternative Benefit Packages for Certain Medicaid Populations, Implementing Provisions of the DRA (December 3, 2008)
• CMS: Final Rule- Medicaid Premiums and Cost Sharing (November 25, 2008)
  • NY Times: New Medicaid Rules Allow States to Raise Premiums and Co-Payments (November 26, 2008)
• CMS October 28, 2008 Letter on Refunding Under Medicaid False Claims Act (October 28, 2008)

• CMS Letter on DRA State Medicaid Integrity Requirements (June 24, 2008) 

• CMS Q&A Guidance to States on DRA Case Management and TCM (June 24, 2008)

• CMS Letter on DRA State Plan 1915(i) Expanded HCBS Option (June 24, 2008)

  • Similarities and Differences Between HCBS Waiver and State Plan 1915(i)

• CMS Final Guidance on DRA Employee Education About False Claims Recovery (June 24, 2008)

  • Q & A
  • False Claims Act

• 13 Million Available to States for Real Choice Systems Change Grants—Applications Due July 17th (May 2, 2008)

• CMS Proposed Rule to Provide Guidance for Home and Community-Based Care (April 1, 2008)

• Frequently Asked Questions Concerning the Tamper-Resistant Prescription Pad Law (March 11, 2008)

• CMS website for state policymakers (March 11, 2008)

• CMS Proposes New Rules For Redesigning Medicaid, States have Greater Flexibility, Cost Sharing (February 21, 2008)

• Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-171) Text (February 21, 2008)

• CBPP Report on CMS Case Management Reg Impact on People with Disabilities (February 8, 2008)

• CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Empower Medicaid Beneficiaries to Direct Personal Assistance Services (January 14, 2008)

• State Perspectives on Emerging Medicaid Long-Term Care Policies and Practices (October 2007)

• CMS Releases Guidance on Self Directed Personal Assistance Services to States (September 28, 2007)
• Kaiser: Deinstitutionalization of People with Mental Illness As Precursor to Long-Term Care Reform (August 2007)

• CMS Awards 13 States Money Follows the Person Grants (May 14, 2007)

• 17 State Breakdown of Money Follows the Person Awards (January 2007)

• CMS Announce Money Follows the Person Demonstration (July 26, 2006)

• CMS Releases Citizenship Guidelines (July 2, 2007)
  • Final Rule

• Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration (July 2007)

• Money Follows the Person Grants (July 2007)

• Iowa First State to Use DRA HCBS Option in State Plan (April 5, 2007)
• CMS Guidance to State Medicaid Directors on Employee Education and DRA False Claims Act ( March 22, 2007)
• CMS Releases Further Guidance on Citizenship Documentation (February 23, 2007)
• CMS Guidance to Medicaid Directors: DRA False Claims Education Provider Requirement (December 13, 2006)
  • CMS Template for State Assurance of Education Requirement

• CMS Announces DRA Policies for Asset Transfers and Long-Term Care Partnershps (July 27, 2006)

  • State Medicaid Directors Letter on Asset Transfers
  • Transfer of Asset Enclosure
  • State Medicaid Directors Letter on Long-Term Care Partnerships
  • Long-Term Care Partnership Enclosure

• Medicaid and Long-Term Care Services Fact Sheet (Kaiser, July 2006)

• House Letter to HHS Secretary Opposing Regulatory Changes to Medicaid (July 26, 2006)

• CMS Approved DRA State Plan Amendments
• APHSA Fact Sheet on Medicaid Citizenship Requirement (July 13, 2006)
• DRA's New Medicaid Requirements for Citizenship Documentation (Kaiser, June 2006)
• HHS Issues State Medicaid Director Letter on Cost-Sharing Under 1916A (June 16, 2006)
  • 6041 State Plan Amendment Pre-print
  • 6042 State Plan Amendment Pre-print
• HHS Issues DRA Citizenship Guidance (June 9, 2006)
  • CMS Citizenship Documentation Letter to States (SMD #06-012)
  • CMS Citizenship Documentation Fact Sheet
• DRA Citizenship Requirement Implementation: Working with Your State (May 2006)
• CMS DRA Medicaid Reform Roadmap on Long Term Supports (March 31, 2006)
• CMS DRA Medicaid Reform Roadmap on Health Insurance Coverage (March 31, 2006)
• SMDL #06-008 Flexibility in Benefit Package (March 31, 2006)
• SMDL #06-009 Non-emergency Medicaid Transportation (March 31, 2006)
• SMDL #06-010 Emergency Services (March 31, 2006)
• HHS Secretary Leavitt Release on New State Medicaid Flexibility (March 31, 2006)
• CMS Medicaid Waiver and Demonstration List
• CMS Medicaid Waiver and Demonstration Map by States

Recent DRA News

• Senators Kerry and Grassley Introduce S. 3327 - Empowered at Home Act of 2008 (July 31, 2008)

• Cash and Counseling National Project (October 19, 2007)

• Money Follows the Person Toolbox for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (updated August 2007)

• Kaiser Issue Brief on the New Medicaid Integrity Program: Issues and Challenges in Ensuring Program Integrity in Medicaid (June 2007)

• Alabama Becomes First State to Receive Approval for DRA Self-Directed Personal Assistances Services (May 24, 2007)

• Iowa First State to Use DRA HCBS Option in State Plan (April 5, 2007)

• New Medicaid Citizenship Documentation Requirement Is Taking A Toll  States Report (CBPP, February 2007)

• 17 State Breakdown of Money Follows the Person Awards (January 2007)

• DRA Checklist for State Legislators (December 2006)

• Community Alternatives to Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities Demonstration Grant Announcement (August 30, 2006)

  • Applicants' Teleconference:

    Tuesday, September 19, 2006
    3:00 PM ET until 4:30 PM
    TOLL FREE #:   1-888-469-1072
    CALLER PASSCODE:   PRTF DEMO

• DRA 9 Day Payment Hold for MEDICARE (August 30, 2006)
• Money Follows the Person Demonstration Outline (August 22, 2006)
• State by State Enhanced FMAP for Money Follows the Person (August 22, 2006)
• Nuts and Bolts on DRA Medicaid Changes (Kaiser, August 2006)
• CMS Money Follows the Person Grant News Page (August 2006)
• CMS Money Follows the Person Grant Announcement (July 26, 2006)
• CMS Announce Money Follows the Person Demonstration (July 26, 2006)
• Kaiser's Updated DRA Citizenship Fact Sheet (July 2006)
• CMS Issues Citizenship Interim Reg Exempting SSI and Medicare Beneficiaries  (July 2006)
• CMS Interim Rule, Comments Due August 11th (July 12, 2006)
• Kaiser Report on DRA Citizenship: Lessons from NY (June 2006)
• Kaiser Fact Sheet on DRA Citizenship Requirement (June 2006)
• DRA Section 6086:Medicaid's HCBS Option (CRS, May 26, 2006)
• West Virginia Medicaid Reform and Children (Georgetown Center for Children and Families, May 2006)
• Kentucky's Medicaid Transformation Initiative (May 2006)
• May 12 CMS Conference Call on Money Follows the Person (May 8, 2006)
• HHS Approves Kentucky Medicaid Reform (May 3, 2006)
• Kentucky Medicaid Reform Initiative Slides (May 3, 2006)
• HHS Approves West Virginia Medicaid Reform (May 3, 2006)
• May 8th CMS Conference Call on New HCBS State Option (May 2, 2006)

• Kaiser Releases 5 New Reports on DRA and Long-Term Care Services (April 17, 2006)

  • Medicaid Long-Term Services Reforms in the Deficit Reduction Act
  • Asset Transfer and Nursing Home Use: Empirical Evidence and Policy Significance

  • Beyond Cash and Counseling: An Inventory of Individual Budget-based Community Long-Term Care Programs

  • Nursing Home Transition Programs: Perspectives of State Medicaid Officials

  • Home Transition Programs: Perspectives of Medicaid Care Planners

• Review of 50 States on DRA & Role of State Law In Limiting Medicaid Changes (NHELP & NACHC, April 2006)
• Model State Legislation to Implement State Flexibility in Medicaid (April 12, 2006)
  • Appropriation Riders
• CMS April 26th Open Door Forum on New DRA Children's HCBS Psychiatric Waiver (April 2006)
• DRA Requires All Medicaid Beneficiaries to Prove Citizenship Status (April 7, 2006)