LIVING AT HOME WAIVER

Fact Sheet for The LIVING AT HOME : Maryland Community Choices Waiver provides  community services and supports to enable people with physical disabilities to live in their own home

FACT SHEET   
                                    

Availiable waiver services
  • Attendant Care, Including personal assistance services.
  • Skilled nursing supervision.
  • Assistive technology.
  • Personal emergency response system.
  • Enviromental accessibility adaptationg
  • Consumer & Family Training
  • Case Management
  • Financial management of self-directed employer services

    Waiver participants are also eligible to receive Medicaid services which include:           
  • Physician Care
  • Hospital Care
  • Pharmacy
  • Medical Day Care
  • Home Health
  • Laboratory Services
  • Disposable Medical Supplies & Equipment
  • Mental Health Services
  • Payments of Medicare premiums, co-payments, and deductibles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

Maryland residents with disabilities
between the ages of 21 and 59, who need nursing home level of care.

ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES

Medical Guidelines

Persons must require a nursing facility level of care based on an assessment from your local health department.

Financial Guidelines

A person's income and assets are reviewed to determine financial eligibility for Medical Assistance.  For the Living at Home Maryland Community Choices Waiver, the monthly income of a person may not exceed 300% of SSI benefits ($1,656 monthly in 2003) and the ciountable assets may not exceed $2000.  Only the income and assets of the person (and any assets of any spoucse) are considered in determining financial eligibility.

PERSONS INTERESTED SHOULD

If you live in a nursing facility:
You may be able to apply for waiver services.
Please call 410-767-7479 for more information.
If you live in the community:
Due to high demand for Living at Home Maryland Community Choices Waiver services but a defind number of available slots and funding, the waiver cannot accept new community applications right not.  A Services Registry was developed for interested community individuals.   To put your name on the Services Registry for the Living at Home Maryland Community Choices waiver, contact the Waiver Services  Registry at
(toll free) 1-866-417-3480.

 


MONEY FOLLOWS THE INDIVIDUAL ACT OF 2003

The Money Follows the Individual Act (MFIA) is a law that became effective July 1, 2003 to help people who want to move out of a nursing facility.  This law makes it illegal for the state Medicaid / Medical Assistance office to refuse an individual access to home and community based waiverservices (HCBS) if:

  • The person is living in a nursing facility at the time the person applies for waiver services; and
  • Medicaid / Medical Assistance paid for at least part of this person's nursing facility stay for at least 30 days before the person applied for the HCBS waiver; and
  • The person meets all the eligibility criteria (age, income, resources, and care level needs) for the HCBS that person is applying for; and
  • The HCBS will qualify for federal matching funds like the nursing facility services do.