The always excellent Mass. Medicaid Policy Institute (disclosure — I’m a member of their board of directors) has released a brand new report on details of the federal 1115 waiver approved by the feds last July. The waiver is an essential part of the financing structure for the new health reform program. Here’s the MMPI announcement:
This issue brief looks at the terms and conditions of the MassHealth waiver
that will run through FY 2008, as it was approved this past July. The July
waiver approval incorporates the provisions of the health reform law, which
enacted some of the changes required in the initial approval of this waiver
renewal, in January 2005. MMPI produced an analysis of the initial approval
last year; this brief updates the earlier one to reflect the terms of the
waiver as they now stand.
Here’s one thing I didn’t realize — negotiations on a new waiver (the current one expires on 6/30/08) begin in earnest in July 2007. Whew — no time to breathe in this game.
John McDonough
