Reduction of Home Care Hours Under Medicaid Can’t be Arbitrary
New Jersey Family Care is the Medicaid a program that provides MLTSS — Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports. The home care program is called HCBS — Home and Community-Based Services. Once the applicant has been found eligible for Medicaid and is assigned a Medicaid case number, s/he must select a Managed Care Organization (MCO). S/he will then receive a visit from a Case...
Disability Integration Act would mandate that states provide home care services
Senator Chuck Schumer introduced S-2427, the Disability Integration Act, on December 5, 2015, to counteract discrimination in Medicaid funding which is disproportionately allocated towards nursing home services. One effect of the bill could be to force States to allocate funds within their Medicaid budgets for Home and Community-Based Services (MLTSS-HCBS) for Medicaid applicants who can...