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Document ID: CMS-2012-0074-0004
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: July 09 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: July 23 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: June 8 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: August 7 2012, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 8108114b
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CMS-10434 - Medicaid and CHIP Program (MACPro)

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I found the MACPro overview session to be informative; thank you. I like the electronic interface for State Plan Amendment (SPA) management in MACPro, and I look forward to using it. Because I work on the SPA for our state's Children's Health Insurance Program, I am familiar with the section prompts in the existing SPA template. My suggestion for improvement in MACPro is to offset any new SCHIP SPA template sections or prompts with bold font or some other indicator, and in those sections, also provide a hypertext link to any new or amended federal statute or regulation that controls that aspect of program administration at the State level. It would actually be helpful to have hypertext links to ALL legal citations in the template. Immediate online access to the legal authority would facilitate State responses to CMS Requests for Additional Information - particularly in offices where staff are not trained in legal research and/or they do not have legal search engine subscriptions.