South Carolina Medicaid Section 1915(b) Waiver Proposal For MCO, PIHP, PAHP, PCCM Programs & FFS Selective Contracting Programs For The Enhanced Prenatal & Postpartum Home Visitation Pilot Project & Managed Care Program

On February 16, 2016, the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) announced it was launching a Medicaid pay-for-success project that will expand the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program. The goal is to reduce preterm births, decrease child hospitalization and emergency department usage due to injury, improve healthy spacing between births, and increase the number of first-time mothers served in the lowest-income communities. This document is the state's Medicaid waiver to implement the project . . .