After months of meeting with an elder lawyer, collecting all the documents needed, my mother's application for Medicaid was finally submitted last week. Now the lawyer tells me I must arrange for an evaluation (2 in fact) to prove that she does need 24/7 care. I didn't know about this. And apparently the evaluations take 3 hours! What on earth do they do - does anybody know? This process is never-ending. Fingers tightly crossed that she ends up getting Medicaid after all this.
If your moms discharge paperwork when she left the NH and what is in her current health chart, her doctors orders for care & medication management show "need", she should be ok.
What are you hoping that medicaid will provide? There will be a limited # of hours of care per week. Medicaid will not provide for 24/7 care at home
Not payment to family living there as caregivers like what California's IHHS program does? But paying a caregiving agency for 24/7 care? Is there a cap on rate?
Wreck NYS state budget? If $ 25 hr a mo, then $ 18K mo / $ 216k yr w/out equipment, transporation, or speciality like PT, OT, ST..... Add those, HUGE cost.
Is it a very narrow limited program? Most states place a limit on at home to around 28 -32 hrs as over that it's not cost effective as they can get 24/7 in a facility with skilled nursing & on site staffed ancillary services for less. Even then states are looking to PACE type of larger community based long day elder programs to have them go into rather than 1-on-1in home or a NH for those ambulatory with family having to pick up all care outside of PACE time.
Do you know what NYS has as medicaids daily reinbursement Room & board rate for NH?
I just cannot see how the costs are sustainable for NYS or any state once the tsunami of baby boomers start hitting medicaid eligibility.
Barb - is some of the billing for 24/7 at home being heavily shifted to Medicare?
If Medicare gets changed to be more limited under this new administration, the NH aren't going to be able to stay open imo. The future is not gonna be pretty on Aging in America.
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