CMS Lays Out Medicaid Redetermination Flexibilities, Considers Easing Fair Hearing Rules

CMS on Tuesday (May 17) laid out a number of policies and tools states can use to ease Medicaid eligibility redeterminations at the end of the public health emergency, such as extending temporary verification policies used during the COVID-19 PHE or requesting temporary authority to streamline renewal processes, noting that such flexibilities can reduce the administrative burden on states as well as the potential for inappropriate eligibility terminations. HHS last week pressed governors to get serious about planning for the...