The federal government did not certify Indiana’s Section 1115 Medicaid Research and Demonstration waiver to expand its Healthy Indiana program as complete and open for public comment because the state did not conduct the required tribal consultation with the Potowatomi Indians.

The waiver request can be seen here.

We along with our partners at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities will be doing comments when the waiver does open up for comment and will share those on SayAhhh! when they are ready. It is not clear when this will be, but there is still enough time for the waiver to receive approval for a planned January 1st, 2015 start date.

And in case you missed it, the federal government has extended Oklahoma’s Section 1115 waiver for its Insure Oklahoma program for another year – through the end of 2015.