Delaware Medicaid State Plan
General Program Administration and Table of Contents
Administering Medicaid Programs – these numbered pages contain federal cites and brief statements regarding program administration and organization of the state organization Medicaid
- Section 1 – Single State Agency
- Section 2 – Coverage and Eligibility
- Section 3 – Services: General Provisions
- Section 4 – General Program Administration
- Section 5 – Personnel Administration
- Section 6 – Financial Administration
- Section 7 – General Provisions
MAGI Eligibility and Benefits State Plan Amendments
Describes Medicaid program client coverage and conditions of eligibility; Application forms and methods for individuals to apply for and renew Medicaid coverage
- MAGI-Based Eligibility Groups
- S94 General Eligibility Requirements, Eligibility Process
- S10 MAGI-Based Income Methodologies
- A1, A2, & A3 Addresses single state agencies delegation of appeals and determinations
- S88 Residency
- S89 Non-Financial Eligibility Citizenship & Non-Citizen
- S21 Hospital Presumptive Eligibility
Attachment 2.1-A Definition of an HMO to 2.2-A Eligibility Groups
Describes Medicaid program client coverage and conditions of eligibility
- Mandatory Coverage – Categorically Needy and Other Required Special Groups
- Optional Groups Other Than the Medically Needy
- Optional Coverage of the Medically Needy
- Requirements Relating to Determining Eligibility for Medicare Prescription Drug Low-Income Subsidies
- Method for Determining Cost Effectiveness of Caring for Certain Disabled Children at Home
Attachment 2.6-A Income and Resource Eligibility
Describes Medicaid program client coverage and conditions of income and resource eligibility
- 2.6-A Eligibility Conditions and Requirements, Pages 1-26
- 2.6-A Supplements 1-18
- Income Eligibility Levels
- Resource Levels
- Reasonable Limits on Amounts for Necessary Medical or Remedial Care Not Covered Under Medicaid
- Methods for Treatment of Income That Differ From Those of The SSI Program
- More Restrictive Methods of Treating Resources Than Those of The SSI Program – Section 1902(f) States Only
- Standards for Optional State Supplementary Payments
- Income Levels for 1902(f) States – Categorically Needy Who are Covered Under Requirements More Restrictive Than SSI
- Resource Standards for 1902(f) States – Categorically Needy
- Transfer of Resources
- The agency does not apply the trust provisions in any case in which the agency determines that such application would work an undue hardship.
- More Liberal Policy Under Section 1902(r) of the Social Security Act
- Eligibility Under Section 1931 of the Act
- Section 1924 provisions
- Income and Resource Requirements for Tuberculosis (TB) Infected Individuals
- Asset Verification System
- Disqualification for Long-Term Care Assistance for Individuals with Substantial Home Equity
- Methodology for Identification of Applicable FMAP Rates
Attachment 3.1-A to Attachment 3.1-I Services
Describes amount, duration, scope, and types of covered services
- 3.1-A Amount, Duration, and Scope of Medical and Remedial Care and Services Provided to the Categorically Needy
- 3.1-B Amount, Duration, and Scope of Services Provided Medically Needy Group(s)
- 3.1-C Standards and Methods of Assuring High Quality Care
- 3.1-D Methods of Providing Transportation
- 3.1-E Standards for the Coverage of Organ and Tissue Transplant Services
- 3.1-I 1915(i) State Plan Home and Community Based Services Administration and Operation
Attachment 3.1-L Delaware Alternative Benefit Plan
Identifies and defines the Adult eligibility group that receives their Medicaid coverage through an Alternative Benefit Plan (ABP)
- ABP1 – Alternative Benefit Plan Populations
- ABP2a – Voluntary Benefit Package Selection Assurances – Eligibility Group Under Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) of the Act
- ABP3 – Selection of Benchmark Benefit Package or Benchmark-Equivalent Benefit Package
- ABP4 – Alternative Benefit Plan Cost-Sharing
- ABP5 – Benefits Description
- ABP7 – Benefits Assurances
- ABP8 – Service Delivery Systems
- ABP10 – General Assurances
- ABP11 – Payment Methodology
Attachment 4.11-A to Attachment 7.7.C COVID-19 Treatment at section 1905(a)(4)(F)
of the Social Security Act
Describes reimbursement, quality control and Title VI Civil Rights
- 4.11-A Standards for Institutions
- 4.14-B Methods for Control of the Utilization of Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) Services
- 4.16-A Cooperative Arrangements with State Health and State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies and Title V Grantees
- 4.17-1 Liens and Adjustments or Recoveries
- 4.18-A Charges Imposed on Categorically Needy
- 4.18-C Charges Impose on the Medically Needy
- 4.18-D Premiums Imposed on Low Income Pregnant Women and Infants
- 4.18-E Optional Sliding Scale Premiums Imposed on Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals
- 4.19-A Payment Adjustment for Provider preventable Conditions
- 4.19-A Methods and Standards for Establishing Payment Rates – Inpatient Hospital Care
- 4.19-A.1 Methods and Standards for Establishing payment Rates Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital Care
- 4.19-A.2 Methods and Standards for Establishing Payment Rates for Freestanding Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital Services
- 4.19-B Methods and Standards for Establishing Payment Rates Other Types of Care
- 4.19-C Standards for Payment of Reserved Beds During Absence from Long-Term Care Facilities
- 4.19-D Methods and Standards for Establishing Payment Rates Prospective Reimbursement System for Long-Term Care Facilities
- 4.19-E Definition of a “claim”
- 4.22-A through 4.22-C Requirements for Third Party Liability (TPL)
- 4.30 Sanctions for Psychiatric Hospitals
- 4.32-A Income and Eligibility Verification System Procedures Requests to Other State Agencies
- 4.33-A Method for Issuance of Medicaid Eligibility Cards to Homeless Individuals
- 4.34-A Requirements for Advance Directives Under State Plans for Medical Assistance
- 4.35-A through 4.35-H Enforcement of Compliance for Nursing Facilities
- 4.38 Disclosure of Additional Registry Information
- 4.39 Definition of Specialized Services
- 4.39-A Categorical Determinations
- 4.40-A through 4.40-E Eligibility Conditions and Requirements
- 4.42-A False Claims Act Attachment
- 7.2-A Methods of Administration-Civil Rights
- 7.7-A Vaccine and Vaccine Administration at Section 1905(a)(4)(E) of the Social Security Act
- 7.7-B COVID-19 Testing at section 1905(a)(4)(F) of the Social Security Act
- 7.7-C COVID-19 Treatment at section 1905(a)(4)(F) of the Social Security Act
Current Admin Notices
Archived Admin Notices
2025 Administrative Notices
- Expanding Retroactive Medicaid Eligibility 2025 DSHP DSHP+
- Communication and Language Accessibility Services
- Attachment A: Language Vendor Contact Information
- Attachment B: USDA, I Speak Statements
- Attachment C: Quick Glance by Language for Over-the-Phone and On-Site Services
- Attachment D: Delaware Relay Service
- Attachment E: Written Translation Vendor Information
- 2025 Federal Poverty and Medical Assistance Levels
- 2025 Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities (MWD) Countable Income Standards
- 2025 Chronic Renal Disease Program (CRDP) Income Limit
- Community Spouse Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance (MMMNA)
- 2025 Personal Needs Allowance (PNA) Increase
- Exclusion of Difficulty of Care Payments from Gross Income
- Attachment A: Difficulty of Care Payment Self Declaration Form
- 90-Day Reconsideration Period at Renewal
- Screening for Non-MAGI Medicaid Eligibility
- 2026 Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities Unearned Income Disregard
- 2026 DMMA Adult Foster & Residential Care Payment Levels
- Fair Hearing Requests Resuming Normal Timeframe Requirements to Take Final Administrative Action
- 2026 SSI Related Income Standards and Medicare Premiums
- 2026 Nursing Home Private Pay Rate
- 2026 Home Equity Limits
- 2026 Spousal Impoverishment Standards
- Pregnancy and 12-Month Extended Postpartum Period
2024 Administrative Notices
- 2024 Nursing Home Private Pay Rate
- 2024 Chronic Renal Disease Program Income Limit
- 2024 Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities Countable Income Standards
- 2024 Federal Poverty and Medicaid Assistance Levels
- Continuous Eligibility for Children in Medicaid
- 1095-B Forms
- Community Spouse Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance (MMMNA)
- Screening for Non-MAGI Medicaid Eligibility
- MWD Premium Discontinuence and Managed Care Enrollment
- 2025 Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities Unearned Income Disregard
- 2025 Home Equity Limits
- 2025 Spousal Impoverishment Standards
- 2025 SSI Related Income Standards and Medicare Program
- 2025 Adult Foster Residential Care Payment Levels
- 2025 Nursing Home Private Pay Rate
2023 Administrative Notices
- 2023 IRS Form 1095-B (Revised)
- 2023 SSI Related Income Standards and Medicare Programs
- 2023 Nursing Home Private Pay Rate
- 2023 Spousal Impoverishment Standards
- 2023 Chronic Renal Disease Program Income Limit
- 2023 Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities Countable Income Standards
- 2023 Federal Poverty and Medicaid Assistance Levels
- 2023 Resumption of Renewals
- 2023 12 Month Continuous Eligibility for Children
- 2023 Community Spouse Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs
- 2023 Fair Hearing Requirements Upon Conclusion of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
- 2024 SSI Related Income Standards and Medicare Premiums
- 2024 Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities Unearned Income Disregard
- 2024 Home Equity Limits
- 2024 Spousal Impoverishment Standards
- 2024 Adult Foster Care Residental Care Payment Levels
2022 Administrative Notices
- 2022 Nursing Home Private Pay
- 2022 Federal Poverty and Medicaid Assistance Levels
- 2022 Chronic Renal Disease Program Income Limit
- 2022 Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities Countable Income Standards
- 2022 Spousal Impoverishment Standards
- 2022 Community Spouse Minimum Maintenance Needs Allowance
- 2022 Post Eligibility Treatment of Income Guardianship Fees
- 2023 Adult Foster/Residential Care Payment Levels
- 2023 Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities Unearned Income Disregard
- 2023 Home Equity Limits
2021 Administrative Notices
- 2021 Nursing Home Private Pay Rate
- 2021 Federal Poverty Level and Medical Assistance Income Limits
- IRS Form 1095-B
- Screening for Non-MAGI Medicaid Eligibility
- Chronic Renal Disease Income Limit
- COVID-19 Emergency Declaration – Renewals, Redeterminations, and Changes in Circumstance for Medicaid Programs
- 2021 Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities Countable Income Standards
- 2021 EVV and Eligibility Information
- Disposition of Applications for Medicaid and the Delaware Healthy Children Program
- Community Spouse Minimum Monthly Maintenance Needs Allowance
- Household Composition for Medicaid Eligibility Groups and the Delaware Healthy Children Program Subject to Modified Adjusted Gross Income Methodology
- Timely Determination of Eligibility for Medicaid and the Delaware Healthy Children Program
- Financial Eligibility-Application of Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) Methodology
- Reasonable Compatibility for Medicaid Eligibility Groups and the Delaware Healthy Children Program Subject to Modified Adjusted Gross Income Methodologies
- Verification Factors of Eligibility for Non Long-Term Care Medicaid and the Delaware Healthy Children Program
- Verification of Factors of Eligibility for Medicaid
- 2022 MWD Unearned Income Disregard
- 2022 Adult Foster/Residential Care Payment Levels
- 2022 SSI Related Income Standards and Medicare Premiums
- 2022 Home Equity Limits
Publications
Diamond State Health Plan 1115 Demonstration Waiver
Delaware’s Current – DSHP 1115 Waiver August 2019 to December 2023
DE 1135 Flexibilities Approval Letter
Approved Interim Evaluation Report April 2024
Approved Evaluation Design April 2024
Annual Report 2022
Managed Care Program Annual Report
Delaware Quality Strategy
Delaware Quality Strategy Summary of Changes from 2018 to 2023 Strategy
- Summary of Changes from the 2018 Quality Management Strategy to 2023 Quality Strategy
- Evaluation of the 2018 Quality Strategy
- 2024 MCO Master Service Agreement (pending CMS approval)
- 2023 MCO Master Service Agreement
- 2020 MCO Master Service Agreement
- Medicaid Enrollment Data (Delaware Open Data) https://data.delaware.gov/Health/Medicaid-Enrollment/xhfg-cwx7/about_data
Diamond State Health Plan Plus
- Waiver Amendment July 2022 DSHP-Plus Waiver Amendment



