Home Health Care News September 26, 2024
For seniors looking to gain access to home- and community-based services (HCBS), wait times can be a major roadblock. Policy aimed at reducing those wait times could also have a positive effect on providers.
In a recent MACPAC meeting, Tamara Huson, a senior analyst and contracting officer at the organization, presented early findings on the use of presumptive eligibility and expedited eligibility, as a way to clear up those wait times.
“We’ve been working to understand states’ eligibility and enrollment processes, particularly ways in which states streamline the process to enable more timely receipt of services,” Huson said during the meeting, which took place last week.
Broadly, presumptive eligibility lets people who aren’t eligible for Medicaid to receive services under...
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