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House Small Business Development Committee Chairman Mike Cheokas (R-Americus) and his Committee and adopted its Committee Rules. This Committee will operate with four subcommittees: 1) Barriers to Regulation (chair is Representative Tim Barton (R-Calhoun)); 2) Retail Hospitality (chair is Representative Bill Yearta (R-Sylvester)); 3) Incentives and Education (chair is Representative Dale Washburn (R-Macon)); and 4) Agribusiness (chair is Representative Steven Meeks (R-Screven)). The Committee heard presentations from NFIB, Nathan Humphrey, which indicated that the small business climate in Ge...

ND Department of Human Services receives federal approval to expand behavioral health services devils lake newsroom BISMARCK, N.D. – The North Dakota Department of Human Services has received final approval of the Medicaid 1915(i) State Plan Amendment from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), creating opportunities to expand community-based behavioral health services. The department plans to have the program available for Medicaid members who qualify by Feb. 16, 2021. "The Medicaid 1915(i) State Plan Amendment is one of the most crucial steps North Dakota has taken to end ...

Jan 28, 2021 BISMARCK – North Dakotans enrolled in Medicaid or Medicaid Expansion with an addiction, mental illness or brain injury may qualify for new services. The North Dakota Department of Human Services announced it has received final approval of the Medicaid 1915(i) State Plan Amendment from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), creating opportunities to expand community-based behavioral health services. The department plans to have the program available for Medicaid members who qualify by Feb. 16. “The Medicaid 1915(i) State Plan Amendment is one of the most crucial...

The Big Picture In late December, following several weeks of dynamic negotiations, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the Act). 1 The massive legislative package includes appropriations through September 30, 2021, $900 billion in supplemental appropriations to address COVID-19, a ban on surprise billing, extensions of expiring health programs and an amalgam of odds-and-ends health policy provisions. The Act contains several key Medicaid provisions, including a delay in Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) allotment reductions, new Medicaid supplemental paymen...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The following post is our brief guide around the context and major financing and coverage principles of the Tennessee waiver (TennCare III). Given the import of the formulary flexibilities to many of our clients, we have “carved out” (to use a Medicaid pun) that discussion for a future post (coming this week!) On Friday January 8 th, in the final days of the Trump Administration, CMS announced approval of a first-in-the-nation waiver that would permit Tennessee to transition from Medicaid’s longstanding, open-ended financing m...