CMS Sends Medicaid Directors Guidance On Special Needs Trusts

CMS sent guidance to state Medicaid directors earlier this month (Aug. 2) telling states to update their Medicaid rules to allow those with a disability to set up their own special needs trusts as allowed by the 21st Century Cures Act. Executive Director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors Matt Salo told Inside Health Policy the guidance allows disabled people to have more control over their finances as it undoes “a relic/remnant of a time when people with...