APTA provides a comprehensive summary of a recently proposed rule that has significant importance to the new Medicaid expansion population who must be offered essential health benefits beginning in 2014. In the proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recommends that states define the habilitative services category under Medicaid and requests comments on whether the habilitative services should be offered in parity with rehabilitative benefits, as contemplated in previously released guidance to states on essential health benefits. In addition, the summary outlines proposals related to eligibility and enrollment, cost sharing, and eligibility appeals.

The summary is available on APTA's Medicaid webpage.