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Additionally, she implemented Bridges to Health (B2H), a Federal Medicaid-waiver program to provide comprehensive family and community support services to medically fragile children in foster care and their families. [25]
The Medicaid waiver program’s eligibility rules vary, but a person must meet their state’s level of care requirement. This means an individual qualifies for full-time inpatient care at an ...
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.
Under an HCBS waiver, states can use Medicaid funds to provide a broad array of non-medical services (excluding room and board) not otherwise covered by Medicaid, if those services allow recipients to receive care in community and residential settings as an alternative to institutionalization.
Sep. 7—The Oregon Health Authority (OHA is moving to leverage Medicaid benefits to prevent homelessness, support behavioral health services, mitigate the impacts of climate change, pending ...
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 ...
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 ...
The HCBS/DD medicaid waiver program helps cover the cost for things that regular medicaid does not pay for. The HCBS Waiver currently has 28 services [1] and there is a spending cap based on the individuals needs. However, services must be "medically necessary".