by Meghan Maury
Proposed Rule of the Week: Transformed—Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS). CMS is revising T-MSIS, the national beneficiary- and claims-level Medicaid and CHIP database, to support three changes. States will report updated immigration-status information and whether coverage ended because of a status change or failed verification. States must also report monthly whether adults subject to the Medicaid work requirement met the 80-hour standard, their qualifying activities and exemptions, and whether they were disenrolled for noncompliance. Finally, CMS will add a code separately identifying per-member-per-month home-health payments, which are currently grouped under “other,” to improve oversight of those programs.
Comments due September 21.
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Education
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) & Temporary Expanded PSLF (TEPSLF) Certification and Application. ED is removing a new PSLF attestation that would have required nonprofits and other public-service employers to certify under penalty of perjury that they had not engaged in activities the administration deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose.” ED is withdrawing the language after a federal court vacated the underlying rule one day before it was to take effect, preserving PSLF eligibility for workers at organizations the administration might otherwise have disqualified. No other changes are being made to the form.
Comments due September 11.Campus Safety and Security Survey. ED is revising the annual Campus Safety and Security Survey to collect statistics on hazing incidents reported to campus authorities or local police, as required by the Stop Campus Hazing Act. The data will be published alongside other campus crime and safety information.
Comments due September 14.
Health
Maternal and Child Health Bureau Performance Measures for Discretionary Grant Information System. HRSA is revising the reporting system used by Maternal and Child Health Bureau grantees, formalizing earlier changes that removed gender questions and LGBTQ+ response options; replaced “pregnant/postpartum persons” with “women”; eliminated a health-equity form and many references to DEI, disparities, underrepresented or marginalized groups, social determinants of health, and people with lived experience; and added “Child Health” and “Women’s Health” topic categories. The current notice also changes five forms to use “medically underserved” terminology and removes two training forms because the information is now collected elsewhere.
Comments due September 11.Medical Monitoring Project (MMP). CDC is revising the Medical Monitoring Project, its nationally representative study of adults diagnosed with HIV, after removing questions that identify transgender respondents and transgender sexual partners. The collection replaces sex assigned at birth, including an intersex option, with a binary male-or-female question; deletes gender identity questions; and limits questions about recent sexual partners to male or female, reducing CDC’s ability to measure HIV care, service needs, and outcomes among transgender people.
Comments due September 11.
Reproductive Justice
National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). CDC is seeking three-year approval to continue the National Survey of Family Growth, which collects nationally representative data from people ages 15–49 on fertility, contraception, pregnancy, infertility, relationships, sexual behavior, and related health care. The questionnaires would remain unchanged from those used since January 2026, while CDC would conduct small methodological studies to improve survey efficiency and data quality.
Comments due August 26.
Public Benefits
ACF and VA Data Sharing and Matching Program. ACF is re-establishing a quarterly data match in which Treasury’s Do Not Pay system will compare state records for Medicaid, TANF, SNAP, and general-assistance applicants and recipients with detailed VA compensation and pension records. States may use the matches to verify eligibility and identify potentially unreported income, although findings must be independently verified before benefits are denied, reduced, or terminated.
Comments due August 21.CMS and OPM Data Sharing and Matching Program. CMS is re-establishing a data match that compares ACA Marketplace applicants and enrollees with OPM records on active federal employees to determine eligibility for Marketplace coverage, financial assistance, exemptions, renewals, and appeals. OPM will provide monthly files containing identifiers and federal health-plan information, but match results must be independently verified before coverage or assistance is denied or reduced.
Comments due August 28.
Economic Development
Non-Infrastructure Metrics. EDA is consolidating three performance reports for non-infrastructure grants into a single revised ED-916 and eliminating the ED-917 and ED-918 outcome questionnaires. The change reduces reporting burden and prioritizes measures of return on investment, but eliminates the standalone forms used to track broader, longer-term outcomes such as innovation, business networks, workforce development, and organizational capacity, potentially narrowing EDA’s picture of benefits that are difficult to express in dollars.
Comments due August 29.
Climate/Environment
Alaska Big Game Guide Use Survey. FWS is renaming the Alaska Guide Service Evaluation as the Alaska Big Game Guide Use Survey and removing questions identifying the outfitter and guide. It would also eliminate the entire demographic section, including questions about sex, race and ethnicity, age, residence, education, and household income, reducing the agency’s ability to assess who uses guided refuge services or whether experiences vary across groups.
Comments due September 14.
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