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Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday the deadline for states to submit updated plans to monitor access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries. The original deadline was Oct. 1, 2022. Under a 2015 final rule, states must update at least every three years their plans to review access to five “core services”: primary care, physician specialists, behavioral health, pre- and post-natal obstetrics (including labor and delivery), and home health services. CMS also encouraged all stakeholders to participate in its recent on barriers to accessing Medicaid and CHIP coverage and services; comments are due April 18.