Highlight: Bill to Improve Medicaid Home and Community-Based Care
According to Sen. Kerry, "Home and community-based services are high-quality, cost-effective, and help many people live independent lives, but Medicaid continues to favor nursing homes. It's a problem when the nation's largest purchaser of long-term care services is tilted towards nursing homes rather than home and community-based services."
The bill would:
• Improve the HCBS State Plan Amendment Option passed under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005;
• Ensure that spousal impoverishment protections available to couples in nursing homes also are available to those who choose HCBS;
• Develop Medicaid demonstration grants for evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programs, similar to those available under the Older Americans Act;
• Provide a family caregiver tax credit;
• Improve Medicaid HCBS data collection; and
• Analyze and report on state implementation of the Medicaid Home Health program.
Read more about S. 3327, Empowered at Home Act.
The bill would:
• Improve the HCBS State Plan Amendment Option passed under the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005;
• Ensure that spousal impoverishment protections available to couples in nursing homes also are available to those who choose HCBS;
• Develop Medicaid demonstration grants for evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programs, similar to those available under the Older Americans Act;
• Provide a family caregiver tax credit;
• Improve Medicaid HCBS data collection; and
• Analyze and report on state implementation of the Medicaid Home Health program.
Read more about S. 3327, Empowered at Home Act.
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