JAN 8, 2021 Update - The Trump Administration adopted a final rule - PDF finalizing, with some changes, the proposed rule that NYLAG and many other organizations commented on, described below.
In its last days, the Trump Administration is continuing to try to sabotage the incoming Administration by tying the hands of new agency leadership and rolling back longstanding regulations. The US Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) has proposed a "sunset regulation" that would retroactively impose a mandatory expiration date on an estimated 18,000 duly promulgated regulations for programs ranging from Medicaid and Medicare to the FDA and CDC. Even long-standing rules would be automatically rescinded unless they survive a complex process of assessment and review. Programs like Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) could be devastated if important regulations are arbitrarily rescinded. NYLAG has joined the National Health Law Program and other organizations in submitting comments, pushing back against this unlawful and ill-conceived proposal designed to sabotage HHS safety net programs.
See NYLAG comments on propsed rule
See National Health Law Program comments on proposed rule
To learn more, check out these blogs posts from Georgetown Health Policy Institute Center for Children & Families and the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
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See other recent comments NYLAG has submitted:
NYLAG COMMENTS on new LOOKBACK for Medicaid Home Care and Assisted Living Program services, which will initially be a 6-month lookback when it begins April 1, 2021 and will increase until it is 36 months. See more info here
NYLAG Comments here about the Home Care Eligibility Changes and Changes in Assessments. - changes in the criteria and procedures for assessing eligibility for Personal Care and CDPAP and MLTC services, and for determining the amount of home care services. See more info here