Deputy Director, Division of Reimbursement Policy, Financial Management Group

0938-AU73 202204 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 statutory language to allow states to make Medicaid payments to a third party on behalf of an individual Medicaid practitioner for benefits such as health insurance, skills training, and other benefits customary for employees, if the practitioner has consented to such payments. This final rule is in response to a 2020 court ruling that vacated a 2019 final rule, which had removed regulatory text allowing a state to make these third-party payments.

]]> Economically Significant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Completed Actions Yes 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 05/16/2022 87 FR 29675 Final Action Effective 06/15/2022 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