Sec. 30714. Funding for technical assistance and other administrative requirements related to Medicaid HCBS
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $35,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out the following activities: To prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress— not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of this Act, a report that includes— a description of the HCBS improvement plans approved by the Secretary under section 30712(d); a description (which may be a narrative report with examples or otherwise) of the landscape, at both the national and State levels, with respect to gaps in coverage of home and community-based services, disparities in access to, and utilization of, such services, and barriers to accessing such services; and a description of the national landscape with respect to the direct care workforce that provides home and community-based services, including with respect to wages, benefits, and challenges to the availability of such workers; and not later than 7 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 3 years thereafter, a report that includes— the number of HCBS program improvement States; a summary of the progress being made by such States with respect to strengthening and expanding access to home and community-based services and the direct care workforce that provides such services and meeting the benchmarks for demonstrating improvements required under section 1905(jj)(5) of the Social Security Act (as added by section 30713); a summary of States’ performance measures as a part of the home and community-based services core quality measures and beneficiary and family caregiver surveys; and a summary of the challenges and best practices reported by States in expanding access to home and community-based services and supporting and expanding the direct care workforce that provides such services.
To provide HCBS program improvement States with technical assistance related to carrying out the HCBS improvement plans approved by the Secretary under section 30712(d) and meeting the requirements and benchmarks for demonstrating improvements required under section 1905(jj) of the Social Security Act (as added by section 30713), and to issue such guidance or regulations as necessary to carry out this subtitle and the amendments made by this subtitle, including guidance specifying how States shall assess and track access to home and community-based services over time.