{"id":6194,"date":"2020-12-28T21:56:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T21:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2020-12-28T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:02:00","slug":"masshealth-policy-changes-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/masshealth-policy-changes-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Policies and Procedures for Newborn Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective January 1, 2021, there are changes to policies and procedures for newborn members: eligibility, enrollment and payment.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to know and understand these changes, especially for hospitals delivering these infants. An example of one of the changes is when a baby is born, the hospitals have 10 days to submit a Notice of Birth (NOB) form to MassHealth. Another change is the hospitals can no longer put \u201cbaby boy\u201d or &#8220;baby girl\u201d as the name.<\/p>\n<p>The full notice can be found at this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/lists\/2020-masshealth-provider-bulletins#december-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2020 MassHealth Provider Bulletin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective January 1, 2021, there are changes to policies and procedures for newborn members: eligibility, enrollment and payment. It is important to know and understand these changes, especially for hospitals delivering these infants. An example of one of the changes is when a baby is born, the hospitals have 10 days to submit a Notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provider-newsletter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MH-e1609192434925.png?fit=254%2C127","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-1BU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}