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Home and Community-Based Services waivers (HCBS waivers) or Section 1915(c) waivers, 42 U.S.C. Ch. 7, § 1396n §§ 1915(c), are a type of Medicaid waiver.HCBS waivers expand the types of settings in which people can receive comprehensive long-term care under Medicaid.
Medicaid Waiver programs help provide services to people who would otherwise be in an institution, nursing home, or hospital to receive long-term care in the community. Prior to 1991, the Federal Medicaid program paid for services only if a person lived in an institution.
Those who are "medically indigent earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to purchase either health insurance or health care." [3] Medically indigent people with significant illnesses face several barriers to health insurance. States like South Carolina came up with their own MIAP program to assist those who fall in the gaps. [4]
Linda Blackford: In an already medically fragile and under-served region, hospitals and clinics need medical supplies and every other kind of resource. Linda Blackford: In an already medically ...
Since 2020, Boise’s Interfaith Sanctuary has housed families with children and people deemed medically fragile at the Red Lion hotel in downtown Boise instead of at their open-dorm shelter on ...
Clovis Unified usually serves 15 to 30 medically fragile students — some in hospital beds, others with a tracheal tube, many unable to do simple tasks such as using a pencil, most communicating ...
A Katie Beckett waiver or TEFRA waiver is a Medicaid waiver concerning the income eligibility for home-based Medicaid services for children under the age of nineteen. Prior to the Katie Beckett waiver, if a child with significant medical needs received treatment at home, the child's income would be deemed to include the parents' entire ...
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