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Assistive Technology Grants: Where the Money Is and How Families Actually Get It
...tariff-related component costs. Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates lag 19 months...and supplemental programs come in. Medicaid HCBS Waivers Cover AT in Many States....supplemental programs come in. Medicaid HCBS Waivers Cover AT in Many States. Medicaid...HCBS Waivers Cover AT in Many States. Medicaid Home and...
Legal > Government Benefits
CMS Just Delayed Key HCBS Safeguards by 17 Months. Here's What Families Receiving Home Care Should Do Now.
...grievance system for Medicaid home and community-based...system was part of the Medicaid Access Rule finalized...formal process for HCBS beneficiaries to file...person-centered planning and HCBS Settings Rule requirements....requirements." For families on Medicaid home care waivers,...are actively cutting HCBS. Over 700,000 people...people are already on HCBS waiver waiting lists....
Financial > Financial Planning
Families Provide $1 Trillion in Unpaid Care Each Year. Here's What Medicaid Cuts Mean for That Burden.
...than all federal, state, and local Medicaid spending combined. Here's the immediate...have surged nearly 50% since 2019. HCBS cuts are shifting even more unpaid...family caregivers ages 18-64 rely on Medicaid for their own health insurance, coverage...spending nationwide and exceeds total Medicaid spending. For disability families,...
Financial > Government Benefits
Medicaid Waiver Waiting Lists: How to Access Services While You Wait (and How to Jump the Line)
You applied for a Medicaid Home and Community-Based...Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver six months ago,...on a waiting list. What HCBS Waivers Cover and Why...Why the Wait Exists. Medicaid HCBS waivers fund services...Wait Exists. Medicaid HCBS waivers fund services...700,000 people are on HCBS waiting or interest lists...
Legal > Government Benefits
What to Do When Medicaid Cuts Your Child's In-Home Care
...and what to do next. What Triggers a Cut Notice. Medicaid cuts to home and community-based services (HCBS)...Medicaid cuts to home and community-based services (HCBS) can come from state budget decisions or from managed...managed care organizations (MCOs) that administer Medicaid in many states. The notice may say your child's...
Health > Treatment
What to Do If Your Child Is on a Medicaid Waiver Waiting List
...people are on Medicaid Home and Community-Based...Services (HCBS) waiting lists...the 2026 Medicaid cuts took...time federal Medicaid funding dropped...D.C. cut HCBS spending....positioned. HCBS waivers allow...care, which Medicaid is required...to cover, HCBS is an optional...pressure, HCBS is often the...cut. Why HCBS Gets Cut First....law, but HCBS funding is...provide. That's HCBS. The "One...
Legal > Government Benefits
States Are Cutting Medicaid Right Now to Cover Federal Losses. Here's What Disability Families Can Do.
...responses to federal Medicaid cuts in real time. The...eligible residents off Medicaid entirely. Spring legislative...$664 billion from state Medicaid budgets over ten years....cover a larger share of Medicaid costs with their own...community-based services (HCBS) are almost always optional...to cover the existing Medicaid shortfall and cushion...
Legal > Government Benefits
Federal Fraud Investigations Are Freezing Home Care Funding. What Families Should Do Now.
...administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is using fraud investigations...using fraud investigations to freeze Medicaid funding that pays for home and community-based...Healthcare), uses AI algorithms to flag HCBS spending growth as a potential fraud...intended. Here's what families relying on HCBS need to know about what's happening,...
News > Advocacy
Iowa Medicaid Is Cutting Home Care for Disability Families. Here's What Families Can Do Right Now.
Iowa's Medicaid managed care organizations...community-based services (HCBS) for families with...a $90.6 million Medicaid funding deficit...(MCOs) to administer Medicaid services. Those...organizations are reducing HCBS funding to address...quietly reining in Medicaid spending by cutting...Families receiving HCBS through Iowa's Medicaid...through Iowa's Medicaid waivers are affected....
News > Advocacy
A Federal Court Just Ruled That New Hampshire's Medicaid Home Care Program Is Failing Disabled Residents. Here's What Families Across the Country Need to Know.
...New Hampshire's Choices for Independence (CFI) Medicaid program may be failing to provide adequate in-home...families across the country who rely on similar Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver...similar Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver programs, this case is a reminder that...
Legal > Government Benefits
Minnesota Lost Its Court Battle to Unblock $243 Million in Medicaid. Here's What Disability Families Should Do Now.
...federal judge denied Minnesota's motion to unblock $243 million in frozen Medicaid funds. Families who were counting on court intervention to restore home...counting on court intervention to restore home and community-based services (HCBS) funding just learned that courts won't provide short-term relief while...
Legal > Government Benefits
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz Are Calling Medicaid Family Caregiver Payments Fraud-Rife. Here's What Self-Directed Care Families Need to Know.
...Means Committee that Medicaid home and community-based...community-based services (HCBS) waivers pay family members...family caregivers through Medicaid is wasteful, possibly...self-directed care waiver, or any Medicaid program that pays a family...York State. It allows Medicaid members who need personal...assistant is paid by Medicaid through a fiscal intermediary....