This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to issue guidance on whether and how state Medicaid programs may extend certain flexibilities after the end of the public health emergency relating to COVID-19.
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance 
 on authorities available to States under the State Medicaid programs 
 under title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend waivers granted 
        during the COVID-19 emergency period beyond such period.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. HHS GUIDANCE TO STATES ON AUTHORITIES TO EXTEND MEDICAID 
              COVID-19 EMERGENCY WAIVERS BEYOND THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY 
              PERIOD.

    Not later than March 31, 2022, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall issue guidance to the States that--
            (1) describes emergency waiver authorities pursuant to 
        section 1135 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-5), or 
        any other emergency waiver or flexibility, used by States under 
        the State Medicaid programs under title XIX of such Act during 
        the emergency period described in section 1135(g)(1)(B) of such 
        Act; and
            (2) describes the extent to which and how such authorities 
        and flexibilities may be extended or otherwise adopted at the 
        option of a State after such emergency period through a State 
        plan amendment, or other waiver authority, under title XIX of 
        the Social Security Act.
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To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on authorities available to States under the State Medicaid programs under title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend waivers granted during the COVID-19 emergency period beyond such period.
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on authorities available to States under the State Medicaid programs under title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend waivers granted during the COVID-19 emergency period beyond such period.
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue guidance on authorities available to States under the State Medicaid programs under title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend waivers granted during the COVID-19 emergency period beyond such period.
Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan