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Project context / problem statement

CMCS (Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services) eRegulations is a web application project that aims for these objectives:

• Reduce the time and effort required for CMCS staff to find, read, analyze, and update regulations pertaining to Medicaid and CHIP.
• State Medicaid and CHIP agencies understand the regulatory requirements for their programs and can easily navigate and understand relevant regulations, laws, and subregulatory guidance.

We started in September 2020 because existing services/resources for regulatory and subregulatory research weren't meeting the needs of CMCS staff, especially being able to find all relevant policy materials for a particular topic without having to spend a lot of time and effort searching for and compiling resources.

Key ways that CMCS eRegulations is different from existing services and resources:

• Brings multiple kinds of policy resources into context with each other (instead of being the publisher of a specific category of policy information)
• Specialized focus on CMCS needs (not a general publisher of federal government information that has to serve the basic needs of a wide range of agencies)

We want to see CMCS staff adopting eRegulations as part of their work because they decide it helps them find what they need.

Following our objectives, we hope to eventually make eRegulations available to State Medicaid and CHIP agency staff.

What's on this wiki?

Our team puts notes and documentation into this wiki to help us maintain a shared understanding of our work, including what we've done and why.

It's public in case anything in here is helpful to other teams, including anyone who may be interested in reusing our code for other eRegulations projects.

Previous versions of eRegulations

This is an adaptation of open source software developed by CFPB and 18F (GSA). Notes from 18F teams who worked on earlier iterations of eRegulations:

• ATF eRegulations research
• OMB eRegulations research
• eRegulations Notice & Comment research