Section 1115 Waiver

Approval lette r and current medicaid 1115 waiver.
Section 1115 waiver. Waivers vary considerably across states from broad approaches to narrow ones. California s section 1115 a medicaid waiver entitled medi cal 2020 was approved by the centers for medicare medicaid services cms on december 30 2015 and is effective through december 31 2020. 431 416 federal public notice and approval process.
431 420 monitoring and compliance. Hhsc has received federal approval of a waiver that allows the state to expand medicaid managed care while preserving hospital funding provides incentive payments for health care improvements and directs more funding to hospitals that serve large numbers of uninsured patients. 431 412 application procedures.
42 cfr subpart g section 1115 demonstrations. Section 1115 of the social security act provides the department of health and human services with the waiver authority to fund demonstration projects for the child support program. Federal section 1115 law permits the secretary of the department of health and human services hhs to approve experimental pilot or demonstration projects that test and evaluate state specific policy changes in medicaid and chip programs to improve care increase.
431 408 state public notice process. For background documents former 1115 waivers and eohhs taskforce meetings from 2009 2014 see archive. In the 1960s section 1115 was added to the social security act and the medicaid law was enacted providing a mechanism for states to waive certain federal rules as part of a demonstration project.
Medicaid section 1115 demonstration waivers provide states with flexibility to test new approaches within medicaid to aid in redesigning and improving their health systems without increasing costs. Section 1115 medicaid demonstration waivers provide states an avenue to test new approaches in medicaid that differ from federal program rules. Section 1115 demonstration special terms and conditions effective 1 1 2019 12 31 2023 for information on the most recent extension of the 1115 waiver see waiver extension.