Title: State Medicaid Waiver Flexibility Act of 2017
Policy area: Health

Summary:
State Medicaid Waiver Flexibility Act of 2017
This bill indefinitely extends a state's Medicaid managed care waiver if: (1) the waiver was in effect as of January 1, 2017, (2) the waiver's renewal has been approved at least twice, and (3) the waiver's terms or conditions remain unchanged.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1277 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1277

    To permit indefinite extensions for certain previously extended 
                     Medicaid managed care waivers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2017

Mrs. Blackburn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To permit indefinite extensions for certain previously extended 
                     Medicaid managed care waivers.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``State Medicaid Waiver Flexibility 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. GRANDFATHERING CERTAIN MEDICAID MANAGED CARE WAIVERS.

    (a) In General.--In the case of a State with a grandfathered 
managed care waiver, the State may continue to implement the managed 
care delivery system that is the subject of such waiver in perpetuity 
under the State plan under title XIX of the Social Security Act (or a 
waiver of such plan) without submitting an application to the Secretary 
for a new waiver to implement such managed care delivery system, so 
long as the terms and conditions of the waiver involved are not 
modified. If the State seeks to modify the terms or conditions of such 
a waiver, the State shall submit to the Secretary an application for 
approval of a new waiver under such modified terms and conditions.
    (b) State With a Grandfathered Managed Care Waiver Defined.--In 
this section, the term ``State with a grandfathered managed care 
waiver'' means a State--
            (1) with a waiver approved by the Secretary of Health and 
        Human Services under section 1915(b) of the Social Security Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 1396u-2(b)) with respect to the authority of the 
        State to implement a managed care delivery system under the 
        State plan under title XIX of the Social Security Act (or under 
        a waiver of such plan under section 1115 of such Act) that is 
        in effect as of January 1, 2017; and
            (2) the renewal of such waiver was approved no less than 
        two times.
    (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed, with respect to a waiver approved by the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services under section 1115 of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1315), to allow for the continued application in perpetuity of 
such waiver with respect to any aspect of the implementation of the 
Medicaid program under title XIX of such Act in such State other than 
the authority of the State to implement a managed care delivery system 
in such State.
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