Family Voices Indiana shares the following information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): On July 15, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that supplements the Exchange final rule, including finalizing Exchange and Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provisions associated with the eligibility changes under the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The rule is available at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/ FR-2013-07-15/pdf/2013-16271. pdf There are slides that walk through the Medicaid eligibility and alternative benefit plan provisions of the final rule. The slides can be found here: Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility and Enrollment Slides: http://www.medicaid.gov/State- Resource-Center/Eligibility- Enrollment-Final-Rule/ Overview-of-Final-Eligibility- and-Enrollment-II-Rule.pdf Medicaid Alternative Benefit Plans and Essential Health Benefits Slides: http://www.medicaid.gov/State- Resource-
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