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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Biden administration removed a Trump-approved extension for Texas’ Medicaid program, explaining the federal government “materially erred” in granting the state’s request for a sped-up extension.
A spokesperson for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services confirmed CMS erred in exempting the state from the normal public process, which the spokesperson described as a critical priority for soliciting stakeholder feedback and ensuring public awareness.
“Upon further review, we have determined that CMS materially erred in granting Texas’s request,” CMS Acting Administrator Liz Richter wrote in a letter to the state’s Medicaid Director Stephanie Stephens with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
“Rather, the erroneous initial determination to approve an exemption from the normal public notice and comment requirements was itself contrary to the interest of beneficiaries, as well as of Texas and CMS, because it deprived beneficiaries and other interested stakeholders of the opportunity to comment on, and potentially influence, the state’s request to extend a complex demonstration – already authorized through September 30, 2022 – into the next decade,” Richter wrote in a 669-page document sent to the state."
I was longing for that creep Abbott and those other seditious Texas repukes to get the long time coming correction they deserve and hopefully more of it to come.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-pol...ension-of-texas-100-billion-medicaid-program/
A spokesperson for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services confirmed CMS erred in exempting the state from the normal public process, which the spokesperson described as a critical priority for soliciting stakeholder feedback and ensuring public awareness.
“Upon further review, we have determined that CMS materially erred in granting Texas’s request,” CMS Acting Administrator Liz Richter wrote in a letter to the state’s Medicaid Director Stephanie Stephens with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
“Rather, the erroneous initial determination to approve an exemption from the normal public notice and comment requirements was itself contrary to the interest of beneficiaries, as well as of Texas and CMS, because it deprived beneficiaries and other interested stakeholders of the opportunity to comment on, and potentially influence, the state’s request to extend a complex demonstration – already authorized through September 30, 2022 – into the next decade,” Richter wrote in a 669-page document sent to the state."
I was longing for that creep Abbott and those other seditious Texas repukes to get the long time coming correction they deserve and hopefully more of it to come.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-pol...ension-of-texas-100-billion-medicaid-program/