CMS Approval Letter Regarding The South Carolina HCBS Temporary Rate Increase

On January 20, 2022, the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) published this approval letter from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding a temporary rate increase for home- and community-based services (HCBS). With this amendment, the State will raise temporarily payment rates for multiple waiver services, for Community Supports waiver, increase individual cost limits, and for Head/Spinal Cord Injury waiver, add the group option for employment services. The state will be submitting formal waiver amendments to implement the temporary rate increases on a permanent basis. The state’s approved request . . .