INTERPRETIVE OR POLICY STATEMENT
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
Division of Management Services
Subject: Medicaid state plan amendment 11-08.
Effective Date: April 1, 2011.
Document Description: Under the Governor's Executive Order 10-04, the department must reduce its expenditures for the current fiscal year ending June 30, 2011. In response to this order, effective April 1, 2011, the aging and disability services administration of DSHS is reducing (by seven percent) all seventeen levels of medicaid payment rates to licensed boarding homes (BH) with contracts to provide assisted living (AL), adult residential care (ARC), and enhanced adult residential care (EARC) services.
To receive a copy of the interpretive or policy statements, contact Debbie Johnson, Home and Community Programs, P.O. Box 45600, phone (360) 725-2531, TDD/TTY (360) 438-2637, fax (360) 586-9727, e-mail debbie.johnson2@dshs.wa.gov, web site http://aasaweb.dshs.wa.gov/management/orm/All_HCS_Rates.xls.