tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 11

Medicaid: HHS Agrees To Consult On Prescreening Spending

Federal government still may play bigger role in states' decisions than ever before.It was all a big mistake. That's what President Bush and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson told the nation's governors about HHS's one-day comment period on a Jan. 7 Federal Register proposal that would require states to get their Medicaid spending plans okayed in advance by the federal government.National Governors Association chair Dirk Kempthorne (R-ID) and vice-chair Mark Warner (D-VA) wrote Thompson Feb. 13, objecting to HHS's tactic of pushing through such a big change in federal-state relations on an emergency basis. In...

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