Final Rule: Deadline for Access Monitoring Review Plan Submissions

On Friday, April 8, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule in the Federal Register to extend the deadline to October 1, 2016, for state submissions of the access monitoring review plan to CMS. The deadline was originally set for July 1, 2016. CMS published the final rule with comment period, Medicaid Program; Methods for Assuring Access to Covered Medicaid Services, on November 2, 2015.