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The following is from a CMS  fact sheet : "CMS Waivers, Flexibilities, and the Transition Forward from the COVID-19 Public Health Emerg...

In November 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a “Request for Information” ( RIN 0938-ZB33 ) to inform  t...

Here is Part I of my comments to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on the revised State Transition Plan on Home and Comm...

Comments on Michigan's revised State Transition Plan for Home and Community-Based Service (HCBS) are due on 1/22/2016.  For more inf...

Below is an email from the MI Dept. of Health and Human Services. I added links that were not in the original email, but the gist of the n...

According to an article in The Hill , " Former ObamaCare official becomes top lobbyist for insurers" by Sarah Ferris, 7/15/15,  ...

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a document called " Exploratory Questions to Assist States in A...

An Update from the CMS: January 9, 2015 New Year Brings New HCBS Settings Rules ... but NOT immediate changes in services! As states and s...

These talking points are found on the website of the Wisconsin Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. They are in defense of a senior ...

This is an Action Alert from ACCSES , a national organization representing service providers for people with disabilities. The federal Cen...

David Kassel at The Real Choices in Care Blog has a lot to say about the extreme ideology of some disability advocates who oppose all con...

Jennie an d friends The Michigan Association of Community Mental Health Boards ( MACMHB ) and the Michigan Association of Hospital Plans...

This is one issue that I did not cover in my comments   on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed regulations [CMS...