The purpose of this memo is to communicate information about the addition of incentive funds earned for the Estate Recovery Program for counties within the Consortium under the Income Maintenance (IM) contract between the Department of Health Services (DHS) and Consortia for the period of January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023.

The purpose of this memo is to communicate information about enhanced federal funding for eligibility and enrollment activities under the Income Maintenance (IM) contract between the Department of Health Services (DHS) and Consortia for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022.

This memo announces updated eligibility policies that will ensure that children receiving certain health care benefits will have 12 months of continuous coverage.

This operations memo announces annual updates to the income thresholds used under modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) budgeting rules when determining whether a child or tax dependent is expected to be required to file a return.

This operations memo announces this year’s Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) and the resulting increase in some Medicaid financial eligibility limits, effective January 1, 2024.

This operations memo provides updates to the institutional cost of care values. These values include the daily average private pay nursing home rate used to determine a divestment penalty period. They also include the monthly average private pay nursing home rate and monthly rate for state centers for persons with developmental disabilities, which are used to calculate income limits for Home and Community-Based Waiver (HCBW) Group B Plus eligibility.

This operations memo announces changes to the health care administrative renewals to comply with new federal requirements.

This memo describes how Community Support Programs can request a waiver to use an advanced practice nurse prescriber as outlined in Wis. Admin. Code DHS § 63.05. This memo replaces the expired DMHSAS Action Memo 2015-10/DQA Memo 15-012 that repealed a statewide waiver for Community Support Programs to use advanced practice nurse prescribers.