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17w. Allowing parents to be paid caregivers for their minor children in the
18Children's Long-Term Supports program when providing a service that would
19otherwise have been performed and paid for by a provider.
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20x. Allowing for qualified individuals to provide training to unpaid caregivers.
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21y. Waiving choice of provider requirements.
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22z. Waiving the managed care network adequacy requirements under
42 CFR
23438.68 and
438.207.
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za. Waiving requirements to complete initial and required periodic
25credentialing of network providers.
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1zb. Adding a verbal and electronic method to signing required documents.
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zc. Allowing the option to conduct evaluations, assessments, and
3person-centered service planning meetings virtually or remotely in lieu of
4face-to-face meetings.
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zd. Allowing the lessening of prior approval or authorization requirements.
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ze. Allowing for data entry of incidents into the incident reporting system
7outside of typical timeframes.
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zf. Waiving the requirement to distribute member-centered plans to essential
9providers.
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zg. Allowing the department of health services to draw federal financing match
11for payments, such as hardship or supplemental payments, to stabilize and retain
12providers who suffer extreme disruptions to their standard business model or
13revenue streams as a result of the 2019 novel coronavirus.
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zh. Allowing the department of health services to waive participant liability for
15room and board when temporarily sheltered at noncertified facilities.
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zi. Allowing payment for home and community-based waiver services that are
17not documented in the recipient's plan.
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zj. Allowing managed care enrollees to proceed almost immediately to a state
19fair hearing without having a managed care plan resolve the appeal first by
20permitting the department of health services to modify the timeline for managed
21care plans to resolve appeals to one day so the impacted appeals satisfy the
22exhaustion requirements and give enrollees more time to request a fair hearing.
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zk. Waiving public notice requirements that would otherwise be applicable to
24waiver changes.
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1zl. Modifying the tribal consultation timelines to allow for consultation at the
2next future tribal health directors meeting.
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zm. Waiving timelines for reports, required surveys, and notifications.
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zn. Allowing the extension of the certification period of level-of-care screeners.
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zo. Allowing the waiver of requirements related to home and community-based
6settings on a case by case basis in order to ensure the health, safety and welfare of
7affected beneficiaries under
42 CFR 441.301 (c) (4).
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zp. Applying any provisions under this paragraph automatically to the
9concurrent 1915 (b) waiver.
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zq. Allowing the waiver enrollment or eligibility changes based on a completed
11functional screen resulting in a change in level-of-care.
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zr. Allowing for continued enrollment in the Children's Long-Term Supports
13program past the ages of 18 and 21.
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zs. Allowing the suspension of involuntary disenrollment.
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(b) The department of health services may implement any of the items specified
16in par. (a) only on a temporary basis to address the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic
17for which the public health emergency described in par. (a) is declared, and any
18extension or renewal of the items in par. (a
) shall comply with s. 20.940 and, if
19applicable, s. 49.45 (2t).
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(11)
Audit of programs and expenditures. Beginning July 1, 2020, and ending
21June 30, 2021, the legislative audit bureau shall use risk-based criteria to review
22selected programs affected by this act and selected expenditures made with funds
23authorized by this act and report the results of its reviews at least quarterly to the
24chief clerk of each house of the legislature and to the joint legislative audit
25committee.
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1(13)
Communications limitations under campaign finance law. Section 11.1205
2(1) does not apply to communications made during, or within 30 days after
3termination of, the public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020, by
4executive order 72, if the communications relate to the public health emergency.
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(14)
Authority to waive interest and penalties for general fund and
6transportation fund taxes. For any person who fails to remit a covered tax or fee
7by the date required by law, the secretary of revenue may waive, on a case-by-case
8basis, any penalty or interest that accrues during the applicable period if the date
9required by law for the remittance is during the applicable period and the secretary
10determines that the person's failure is due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
11For purposes of this subsection, “applicable period” means the period covered by the
12public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72, and
13“covered tax or fee” means a tax that is deposited or expected to be deposited into the
14general fund or a tax or fee that is deposited or expected to be deposited into the
15transportation fund.
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(15)
Autopsies and cremation of bodies of persons who died of COVID-19.
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(a)
Definition. In this subsection, “COVID-19” means an infection caused by
18the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.