CMS Launches Comprehensive Effort to Strengthen Monitoring of Medicaid Beneficiary Access for Patients While Relieving Administrative Burden for States

Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to rescind outdated 2015 requirements that impose complex administrative burdens on States without meaningful impact to beneficiaries.  This effort  will streamline federal oversight of access to care requirements that protect to Medicaid beneficiaries.

CMS is also issuing guidance to states to remind them of their ongoing statutory responsibilities to ensure appropriate access to care for beneficiaries.

• Access to Covered Medicaid Services—Rescission
• Comprehensive Strategy for Monitoring Access in Medicaid