Helpful or harmful? Bevin Medicaid waiver clears hurdle
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services certified Thursday that Kentucky has submitted a complete application for a waiver that would allow the state to make significant changes to its Medicaid program.
"Application completeness is an early step in the waiver review process, and simply means that the waiver contains sufficient information to evaluate it," said Marjorie Connolly, press secretary for HHS.
Connolly added, "We now begin the federal comment period, during which we look forward to the people of Kentucky sharing their views and questions with HHS."
She said following the comment period the waiver process normally involves "significant additional dialogue" between HHS and a state seeking a waiver.
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