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MCLE Health Law Basics Plus 2013 - Post-Acute Care
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MCLE Health Law Basics Plus 2013
Post-Acute Care
November 14, 2013
David Harlow JD MPH
THE HARLOW GROUP LLC
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twitter @healthblawg
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Post-Acute Care Acronym Bingo
SNF
DPH
COPs
DON
MA
ALF
HPC
SOM
MMQ
PACE
HHA
CHIA
CMS
RAP
SCO
IDR
EOEA
PPS
OASIS
HCBS
MAC
OBRA
RUGS
GAFC
CFCO
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Future of Health Care: the Home
• Patient-centered care
• Non-institutional options
▫ Cheaper & better
• Federal dollars back up the philosophical change
▫ Equal access to institutional/noninstitutional care
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Key ACA Provisions affecting Long Term Care
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Community First Choice Option - A new state plan option to provide home- and
community-based services that includes an increase in federal matching funds for program
costs
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The
„ State Balancing Incentives Payment Program - A temporary program that
provides qualifying states with an increase in their federal match for Medicaid Home- and
Community-Based Services (HCBS) costs
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Changes to Medicaid’s 1915(i) Option for Home- and Community-Based Care „
Improvements to Medicaid’s existing state plan option for providing Home- and CommunityBased Services (HCBS), 1915(i)
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Expanded Spousal Impoverishment Protection in Medicaid - Requires states to
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extend the same spousal impoverishment protections that apply to institutional care to homeand community-based care
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Extending Money Follows the Person Demonstration Project - Helps Medicaid
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eligible individuals transition from institutions back to the community
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Additional Funding for Aging and Disability Resource Centers - Funding for aging
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and disability resource centers
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David Harlow JD MPH
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