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NCIL Listening Session – Public Health Emergency Ending
March 30, 2023
Image: NCIL Logo: National Council on Independent Living

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Agenda

1. Housekeeping 
2. Brief Introduction – Public Health Emergency Ending 
3. Comment Period 

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Tech Housekeeping... 
CART Captioning & ASL Interpreters are available.
To view the ASL video: 
- Find the interpreter's video in the gallery 
- In the top right corner of the interpreter's video, click the ellipses 
- Then, click the "Pin Video" option. This will keep the interpreter's video on your screen 
To View CART Captions 
- To start viewing closed captioning click Closed Caption with the CC icon 
- Tip: Click and drag the closed captioning to move its positioning in the meeting window. 
To adjust the caption size: Click the upward arrow next to Start Video / Stop Video • Click Video Settings then Accessibility. Move the slider to adjust the caption size 

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Brief Introduction: Public Health Emergency Ending
- The federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) and Major Disaster Declaration (MDD) for COVID-19 will end on May 11, 2023
- This will end the temporary, but significant, changes made to Medicaid enrollment and eligibility rules, as well as additional pandemic-specific flexibilities
For more resources: 
- https://acl.gov/news-and-events/acl-blog/public-health-emergency-unwinding-changes-medicaid-enrollment-and
- https://acl.gov/covid19/unwinding-medicaid-continuous-coverage-public-health-emergency-declaration-and-major

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To Share Your Comments 

- To indicate that you have a comment, please use Zoom's "Raise Hand" feature located at the bottom of the screen.​ 
- When you raise your hand, it alerts the moderator that you'd like to speak. The moderator will unmute attendees to speak in the order that they raised their hands.​ 
- To Raise your Hand – Go to Reactions then raise hand 
- You can also hit Alt Y on your keyboard 
- If you are on the phone - *9 to raise your hand *6 to unmute