Modern Healthcare interviewed Manatt's Jocelyn Guyer, a director with Manatt Health, for an article on states' ability to enroll eligible residents in Medicaid through the federal program that provides food assistance for low-income Americans.
Modern Healthcare reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow states to continue to use data from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to identify individuals with incomes at the state's Medicaid income eligibility threshold. States previously needed to obtain a waiver to implement this strategy but now can get permission with an amendment to their Medicaid plans.
States may begin to see a reduction in the cost of enrollment. "It will save states on administrative costs and spare families lots of unnecessary paperwork," said Guyer.
Read the article here.