Potential Changes to Medicaid Long-Term Care Spousal Impoverishment Rules: States’ Plans and Implications for Community Integration

Article Publication Date:

11/15/2018

Summary:

On Thursday, November 15, 2018, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) published an issue brief exploring the upcoming changes to spousal impoverishment policies in Federal Medicaid HCBS policy. This report provides an explanation of why spousal impoverishment policies exist, the changes made by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the potential implications of the expiration of these ACA changes.

Article Author:

Musumec, MaryBeth; O’Malley Watts, Molly

Topics:

Long Term Services and Supports

Long-term care

Spousal Impoverishment

Types/Tools:

Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers; Reports

Populations:

Aging/Older Adults; Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities; Physical Disabilities; Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness

Sources:

Kaiser Family Foundation