CMS New York 1115 Renewal Completeness letter

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
7500 Security Boulevard, Mail Stop S2-26-12
Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850

Children and Adults Health Programs Group


May 30, 2014

Dr. Howard A Zucker
Acting Commissioner
Office of Health Insurance Programs
New York State Department of Health
Empire State Plaza
Corning Tower Building
Albany, NY 12237

Dear Dr. Zucker:

Thank you for your recent request to extend New York´s Partnership Plan section 1115 of the Social Security Act (the Act) demonstration (Project Number 11-W-00114/2). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) received your extension request on December 31,2013, and additional application materials on May 15,2014.

We have completed our review of your extension request in accordance with the April 27, 2012 final rule that outlined specific elements that must be included in a state´s extension request. We have determined that the state´s extension request is complete as specified under 42 CFR §431.412(c).

In accordance with section 42 CFR §431.416(a), CMS acknowledges receipt of the state´s extension request. The extension application documents will be posted on the Medicaid.gov website for a 30- day federal comment period, as required under 42 CFR §431.416(b).

The documents will be available at: http://medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-Prograrn-Information!By-Topics/Waivers/Waivers.html.

If you have additional questions, please contact your assigned project officer, Jessica Woodard. Ms. Woodard can be reached at (410)786-9249 or Jessica.Woodard@cms.hhs.gov.

Communications regarding program matters and official correspondence concerning the demonstration should be submitted to Ms. Woodard at the following address:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Centers for Medicaid & CHIP Services
Mail Stop: S2-01-16
7500 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, MD 21244-1850

Official communications regarding program matters should be sent simultaneously to Ms. Woodard and to Mr. Michael Melendez, Associate Regional Administrator, in our New York Regional Office. Mr. Melendez´s contact information is as follows:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
New York Regional Office
Division ofMedicaid and Children´s Health
26 Federal Plaza
New York, NY 10278
Telephone: (212)616-2430
Email: Michael.Melendez@cms.hhs.gov

We look forward to working with your staff on the extension of your demonstration project.

Sincerely,

Diane T. Gerrits
Director
Division of State Demonstrations and Waivers

cc: Eliot Fishman, Director, Children and Adults Health Programs Group
Michael Melendez, Associate Regional Administrator, CMS New York
Jason Helgerson, New York State Department of Health
Kalin Scott, New York State Department of Health
Jessica Woodard, CMCS