Deputy Director, Division of Reimbursement Policy, Financial Management Group

0938-AU73 202110 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 0900 Department of Health and Human Services HHS Reassignment of Medicaid Provider Claims (CMS-2444)

This final rule reinterprets the scope of the general requirement that state payments for Medicaid services under a state plan must be made directly to the individual practitioner providing services, in the case of a class of practitioners for which the Medicaid program is the primary source of revenue. Specifically, it explicitly authorizes states to make payments to third parties to benefit individual practitioners by ensuring health and welfare benefits, training, and other benefits customary for employees, if the practitioner consents to such payments to third parties on the practitioner's behalf.

]]> Other Significant First Time Published in The Unified Agenda Final Rule Stage No No 42 CFR 447 42 U.S.C. 1396a 42 U.S.C. 1302 Judicial NPRM 08/01/2021 Expiration of abeyance of court decision requiring CMS reconsider statutory question. No NPRM 08/03/2021 86 FR 41803 NPRM Comment Period End 09/28/2021 Final Action 03/00/2022 No State No No No Christopher Thompson Deputy Director, Division of Reimbursement Policy, Financial Management Group 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 410 786-4044 christopher.thompson@cms.hhs.gov Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, MS: C4-26-05, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore MD 21244