CMS withdraws Medicaid block grant guidance days before Tennessee submission

A federal court case against Tennessee’s recent TennCare waiver has been paused and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is reopening the federal comment period for the state’s block-grant style overhaul of the safety-net insurance program.

The Biden Administration has agreed to reopen the public comment period for a month, and in exchange, groups currently suing the state and federal governments — including the Tennessee Justice Center and the National Health Law Program — over the waiver approval have suspended their lawsuit, according to POLITICO. The federal comment period is now open until Sept. 9.