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DHS seeks to keep pandemic-era Medicaid and telemedicine flexibilities in place as permanent rules
Summary
The Department of Human Services presented multiple rule packages to convert emergency pandemic flexibilities into permanent or time-limited rules, covering Medicaid continuous enrollment, telemedicine, prescreening suspensions, payment for COVID treatments, and waiver adjustments.
The Department of Human Services told the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that it has packaged pandemic-era flexibilities into a permanent set of rules with specific sunset dates tied to the federal public health emergency or end-of-year deadlines.
Mark White explained DHS consolidated measures it had implemented under emergency rule into discrete rule packages so services and providers would not abruptly lose pandemic flexibilities when the state emergency ended. "We put…
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