WSR 21-14-060

HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY

[Filed July 2, 2021, 9:16 a.m.]

NOTICE

Title or Subject: Medicaid State Plan Amendment (SPA) 21-0027 Home Health Providers.

Effective Date: July 3, 2021.

Description: The health care authority (HCA) intends to submit medicaid SPA 21-0027 in order to add the provider type of social worker to the list of home health providers, in accordance with ESSB 5092.

SPA 21-0027 will increase payments/expenditures; ESSB 5092 appropriated $1,131,000 combined state and federal general funds to add home health social workers as providers of home health services.

SPA 21-0027 is currently under development. To request a copy of the SPA when it becomes available or submit comments, please contact the person named below (please note that all comments are subject to public review and disclosure, as are the names of those who comment).

Contact: Wendy Steffens, Medicaid Rates, 626 8th Avenue S.E., Olympia, WA 98501, TRS (TDD/TTY) 711, website wendy.steffens@hca.wa.gov.