(1/28/10) The Senate’s health reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, H.R. 3590, contains several provisions that would expand Medicaid’s coverage for home and community-based services. Specifically, the Senate proposes to: create a new community-based option for individuals otherwise eligible for Medicaid institutional coverage; enhance the home and community-based (HCBS) state plan benefit; mandate, at least temporarily, spousal impoverishment protections for spouses of all individuals receiving HCBS waiver or state plan services; extend authorization of the Money Follows the Person program through 2016; and authorize additional funding for Aging and Disability Resource Centers. READ MORE
