NH 23-0006 DME-IME-CAH Payment Suspension

Public Comment Period for State Plan Amendment (SPA): NH 23-0006 DME-IME-CAH Payment Suspension

LEGAL NOTICE
NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Notice is hereby given that the New Hampshire (NH) Department of Health and Human Services (the Department) is proposing to amend the Title XIX State Plan to continue the suspension of direct graduate medical education (DME) payments, indirect graduate medical education (IME) payments, and catastrophic aid payments to hospitals for another biennium, as specified in the Department’s biennial budget for SFY 2024 and SFY 2025. Because this is a continued suspension, the fiscal impact is noted as zero.

Copies of draft State Plan pages will be available by August 1, 2023. Please contact Jody Farwell at (603) 271-9421, or via e-mail at jody.l.farwell@dhhs.nh.gov, to request copies. The amendments to the State Plan pages may undergo further revisions before and after submittal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) based upon public comment or CMS feedback. Comments will be due by August 15, 2023 and should be e-mailed to jody.l.farwell@dhhs.nh.gov or mailed to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Medicaid Services, 129 Pleasant Street–Brown Building, Concord, NH 03301-3857, ATTN: Jody Farwell.