Public Forum for input on Medicaid’s SMI 1115 Demonstration
Waiver
Providers, recipients,
and other interested individuals will have the opportunity to provide input on
the
Alabama Medicaid
Agency Section 1115 Institutions for Mental Disease Waiver for Serious Mental
Illness (SMI) 1115(a) Demonstration program during November public forums in
Daphne, Alabama and in Montgomery, Alabama.
Written comments
concerning the 1115 Institutions for Mental Disease Waiver for Serious Mental
Illness (SMI) will be accepted starting November 7, 2023, and are due December
7, 2023. Send comments to the following email address: PublicComments@Medicaid.Alabama.gov or mail hard copy to: Administrative Secretary,
Alabama Medicaid Agency, 501 Dexter Avenue, P.O. Box 5624, Montgomery, Alabama
36103-5624.
All written comments
will be available for review by the public during normal business hours at the above address.
The scheduled public
forum(s) will be held:
Friday, November 17,
2023, at 9:30 a.m.
In-person Meeting: 7400
Roper Lane, Daphne, AL 36526
Online meeting link:
https://medicaid.webex.com/medicaid/j.php?MTID=mcf9116f07526aa3afad27d3323411613
Meeting number (access
code): 2663 356 0710
Meeting password: eMma8nYqC35
Join by phone: 1-650-479-3208
(U.S. Toll)
Monday, November 20,
2023, at 9:00 a.m.
In-person Meeting: 501
Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36104
Online meeting link:
https://medicaid.webex.com/medicaid/j.php?MTID=m3b821807f87d4a240e8dd2d34b7833c2
Meeting number (access code): 2664 195 2918
Meeting password: 8sqC3cbMau6
Join by phone: 1-650-479-3208
(U.S. Toll)
The annual forum is a requirement by the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the 1115 Demonstration Waiver under which the SMI
program operates. The waiver was originally approved on May 20, 2022.
For more information about this waiver,
please visit https://medicaid.alabama.gov/documents/4.0_Programs/4.2_Medical_Services/4.2.6_Mental_Health/4.2.6.2_SMI_Waiver/4.2.6.2_SMI_Approved_Review_10-3-23_New_Public_Notice_Abbreviated.pdf.