Health Care Reform Improves Access to Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services – Fact Sheet

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Article Publication Date: 
6/1/2010
Summary: 
How does ACA provide new financial incentives for states, and create opportunities within existing programs to promote Medicaid HCBS for older persons and adults with disabilities? The number and variety of new options, combined with the prospect of additional federal funds, may give some states added flexibility in balancing their LTC system. Read this fact sheet which enumerates the new programs and modifications to existing ones.
Article Author: 
Walker, Lina
Topics: 
Medicaid
Types/Tools: 
Fact Sheets
Populations: 
N/A
Sources: 
AARP Public Policy Institute
Programs/Initiatives: 
Affordable Care Act (ACA); 1915c
States: 
All States/Territories
Keywords: 
Long-Term Care
Community First Choice option; State Balancing Incentive Payments Program; Federal Medical Assistance Percentage; FMAP; non-institutional services and supports; MFP; Money Follows the Person; income and asset protections for spouses; spousal impoverishment protection; Fact Sheet 192

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