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CMS Finalizes Rule Overhauling Medicaid Enrollment, Eligibility Processes

Medicaid will now have a consistent state-to-state renewal process, according to the streamlining Medicaid eligibility rule CMS finalized Wednesday (March 27), which includes several reforms aimed at removing red tape and barriers to enrollment, including limiting Medicaid and CHIP renewals to once a year, giving applicants 30 days to respond to information requests and requiring states to prepopulate renewal forms in certain cases.

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HHS Releases Payer-To-Provider Resource List In Cyberattack’s Wake

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Medicaid will now have a consistent state-to-state renewal process, according to the streamlining Medicaid eligibility rule CMS finalized Wednesday (March 27), which includes several reforms aimed at removing red tape and barriers to enrollment, including limiting Medicaid and CHIP renewals to once a year, giving applicants 30 days to respond to information requests and requiring states to prepopulate renewal forms in certain cases.

Key industry groups are objecting to FDA’s plan to tackle its decades-old backlog of draft guidance documents by sometimes skipping opportunities for public comment, and they offer a number of other ways the agency could overhaul its guidance procedures.

FDA is again proposing to ban the use of electrical stimulation devices (ESDS) for reducing or stopping self-injurious or aggressive behavior, aiming to end a practice often decried as abusive in institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.