CMS Provides Initial Guidance for Health Care Reform Early Medicaid Expansion

OPEN MINDS Weekly Wire Strategic Health Care News On April 9, 2010, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released initial guidance to state Medicaid directors on how to expand Medicaid programs to individuals earning less than 133% of the federal poverty level without regard to disability, parental status, or other limitations in state Medicaid plans. The expansion is part of Section 2001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Medicaid Coverage for the Lowest Income Populations. States could start phasing-in the expansion as of April 1, 2010; by January 1, 2014, the expanded coverage will . . .