Arkansas Medicaid Section 1115(a) demonstration: Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me (ARHOME)

“The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is approving Arkansas’s request for a new section 1115(a) demonstration titled, “Arkansas Health and Opportunity for Me”(ARHOME) (Project Number 11-W-00379/6) (the “demonstration”), in accordance with section 1115(a) of the Social Security Act (the Act). Approval of this demonstration will enable Arkansas (“the state”) to provide premium assistance to Medicaid beneficiaries with incomes up to and including 133 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), who are eligible under the new adult group, to assist beneficiaries in the purchase of coverage from qualified health plans (QHPs) offered in the individual market through the Federally Facilitated Marketplace”