Memory care facilities that accept medicaid near me

Q: Does Medicaid cover memory care in Texas?

In Texas, Medicaid doesnt directly cover memory care. However, seniors who qualify for Medicaid can apply for the STAR+PLUS waiver, which replaced the Community Based Alternatives (CBA) waiver in 2014. The managed care program is available for eligible adults aged 65 and over and adults with disabilities.

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Does Medicaid cover memory care in Texas?
Will Medicaid pay for assisted living in Washington state?
Does Medicaid pay for memory care in CT?
Does Medicaid pay for assisted living in Florida?

2022 State Medicaid Assisted Living Benefits
State	Medicaid Policies and Programs for Assisted Living	Other Options for Residents
Alabama	Alabama has several Medicaid programs that help individuals remain living in their homes, but does not currently provide assistance for those in assisted living.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Alaska	The state of Alaska will pay for assisted living or “Residential Supported Living Services” through the Alaskans Living Independently Waiver, as well as Adults with Physical Disabilities Waiver. Enrollment may be capped, and therefore, waiting lists for services may exist.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Senior Benefits Pioneer Homes (State subsidized assisted living)
Arizona	Arizona, through the Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS), will pay for services for individuals residing in an assisted living community, provided there is space available in the program. Self Directed Attendant Care offers ALTCS program participants the option to choose their own care providers.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Arkansas	Arkansas now offers two options that help pay for assisted living for Medicaid beneficiaries. The specifically designed Living Choices Assisted Living Waiver is a great option. Personal Care under the state’s regular Medicaid program can be provided to assisted living residents, and via this program, program participants can self-direct their own care through the Independent Choices Program.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
California	Medi-Cal (California Medicaid) pays for assisted living via the Assisted Living Waiver (ALW). This waiver is not available statewide, and as of 2019, assisted living residences are available in only 15 counties. However, persons not living in those counties can choose assisted living residences in those counties.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Colorado	Colorado has an Elderly, Blind and Disabled Waiver (EBD) that allows program participants to receive care services in an assisted living residence. Be aware that assisted living is referred to as alternative care facilities. Via the Consumer Directed Attendant Support Services (CDASS) option, EBD program participants can choose and hire their own care providers.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options Old Age Pension / CO Adult Foster Care
Connecticut	Medicaid in CT pays for care in assisted living (which it calls congregate housing) through the Home Care Program for the Elderly (CHCPE). The Connecticut Assisted Living Program further explains the assisted living services under CHCPE. Adult Family Living is another option, although it is analogous to adult foster care, not assisted living.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Congregate Housing Services Program / Adult Family Living
Delaware	Through the Diamond State Health Plan Plus program Delaware provides assistance to individuals in assisted living.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
D.C.	The District of Columbia Medicaid program offers the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Waiver, which now covers assisted living in limited situations.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Florida	Florida has eliminated its HCBS Waivers and now covers assisted living through the Statewide Managed Medicaid Care – Long Term Care.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options Optional State Supplementation Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative
Georgia	Under Georgia’s Community Care Services Program, assisted living services, also referred to as alternative living services, are provided. The Georgia SOURCE Waiver also includes this benefit.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Hawaii	Hawaii offers Med-QUEST (Medicaid managed care), which will pay for an individual’s nursing services in assisted living residences. Another option is Adult Foster Care, which provides assisted living type services in small home-like environments.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Kupuna Care /Community Care Foster Family Home
Idaho	Idaho Medicaid provides three programs that pay for participants’ personal care regardless of the location in which they reside (at home or in assisted living), provided they do not live in a nursing home. These programs are the HCBS Aged & Disabled Waiver, Personal Care Services Program and the Idaho Medicare Medicaid Coordinated Plan.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Illinois	Illinois offers the HCBS Waiver for Supportive Living Facilities. While there is an enrollment cap on the program, the state does offer a large number of slots and has many more residences under development.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Indiana	Indiana includes assisted living as a benefit under its Aged and Disabled Waiver (A&D) provided participants reside in Medicaid approved assisted living communities. The waiver also offers an alternative to assisted living called Structured Family Caregiving.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Residential Care Assistance Program
Iowa	Iowa allows residents to consumer direct their attendant care. Attendant or personal care can be provided at home or in assisted living. The HCBS Elderly Waiver is the name of the program that provides funding. Another option for adults under 65 is the Health and Disability Waiver.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Kansas	Medicaid in Kansas (KanCare) offers payment for nursing services regardless of the location in which an individual resides, be that at home or in assisted living. Funding is provided by the HCBS/ FE Waiver.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Senior Care Act
Kentucky	Kentucky Medicaid has the Supports for Community Living Waiver, which covers adult foster care. However, it is not available to most seniors, as it is for persons whose intellectual or developmental challenges developed prior to the age of 22.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Louisiana	Louisiana Medicaid does not currently provide assistance to individuals to help with the cost of assisted living. However, under the Community Choices Waiver, there is a benefit called Monitored In-Home Caregiving, which is similar to adult foster care.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Permanent Supportive Housing
Maine	MaineCare (Medicaid’s name in Maine) provides Long-Term Care assistance, which covers those residing assisted living facilities — what Maine refers to as “residential care facilities.” MaineCare also offers two Medicaid programs that help persons remain living in their homes,	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Maryland	For Medicaid (called Medical Assistance in Maryland) eligible individuals who are assessed as requiring a higher level of care, but do not have a need so great that it would be less expensive for them to live in nursing home, Maryland Medicaid will pay for assisted living under the Community Options Waiver (formerly the Waiver for Older Adults). Another option with different eligibility criteria is the Increased Community Services (ICS) Program. Finally, Community First Choice, under the state Medicaid plan, will provide care services in assisted living.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Assisted Living Subsidy / Congregate Housing
Massachusetts	In Massachusetts, Medicaid is called MassHealth. MassHealth pays for personal care for individuals living in assisted living through the Personal Care Attendant program. Massachusetts also has a program called Caregiver Homes in which participants receive a similar level of 24/7 care as they do in assisted living but instead live in the private homes of caregivers. Finally, Group Adult Foster Care covers personal care but not rent.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Supportive Senior Housing Initiative
Michigan	Through the Michigan Choice Waiver Program, the state will pay for assisted living. However, the state may refer to it as adult foster care or homes for the aged. Another option is Health Link.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Minnesota	Minnesota pays for assisted living through the Medicaid Waiver called the Elderly Waiver. As with most waivers, participation is limited. A second option is the Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI) Waiver. A third option is the state’s Medicaid managed care program called MSC+ & MSHO.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Housing Support Program
Mississippi	Mississippi has a Medicaid Waiver specifically designed to help individuals reside in assisted living residences. Read more about the Assisted Living Waiver.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Group Residential Housing
Missouri	Missouri Medicaid covers the cost of personal care for qualified individuals through its Aged and Disabled Waiver. The waiver does not specifically designate the residential location of the care recipient other than to exclude personal care from being provided in a nursing home. The same rules apply to the State Plan Personal Care option. The Supplemental Nursing Care Assistance Program also offers financial assistance for both assisted living and nursing home care. Finally, Medicaid Care Options provides long-term care services in assisted living.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Montana	The Montana Home and Community Based Services Medicaid Waiver will cover the cost of care services in assisted living for its participants. Note that this waiver refers to assisted living as Adult Residential Living.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Nebraska	Nebraska offers residents the Aged and Disabled Medicaid Waiver. Under this waiver, assisted living is an included benefit.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Assistance to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled
Nevada	Nevada HCBS Waiver covers “augmented personal care,” or in more common language, the program covers personal care in assisted living residences. Another option for disabled adults of any age is the WIN Waiver.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
New Hampshire	New Hampshire, through the Choices For Independence Medicaid program, pays for assisted living. However, it is referred to as adult family care in the list of the program’s benefits.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
New Jersey	New Jersey has a Medicaid managed care program called Managed Long Term Services and Supports (MLTSS), which includes assisted living as an option.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Congregate Housing
New Mexico	New Mexico now has a managed Medicaid program for long term care. Under this program, titled Centennial Care Community Benefit, assisted living is an included benefit.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
New York	New York offers the Assisted Living Program (ALP), which provides approximately 4,200 units statewide in licensed assisted living communities. However, this program is not strictly open to Medicaid participants. Personal care provided under Managed Long Term Care can be provide to persons residing in assisted living, as can the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance program.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
North Carolina	North Carolina’s Medicaid State Plan Personal Care option provides personal care assistance in assisted living.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Adult Care Home Assistance / Adult Care Home Special Care Unit
North Dakota	North Dakota’s State Plan Personal Care is provided regardless of the living situation (excluding nursing homes).	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / SPED and Ex-Sped
Ohio	Ohio offers a Medicaid waiver specifically for assisted living called the Assisted Living Waiver Program. This program pays for care services in residential care communities but does not pay for the room and board cost. There are a limited number of slots available and participants must select from approved providers. In certain counties, for persons eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare, the AL Waiver has been replaced with a Managed Medicaid program called MyCare Ohio.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Residential State Supplement / Elderly Services Program
Oklahoma	Through Oklahoma Medicaid’s ADvantage Program Waiver, services in assisted living communities are covered. Under the Medicaid State Plan Personal Care program, care can also be provided to persons living in assisted living.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Oregon	Oregon, under the K Plan (part of the Community First Choice state plan option), offers attendant care services as a benefit regardless of the location in which the beneficiary lives (except for nursing homes). Eligible locations include at home, in adult foster care, independent living or assisted living communities.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania does not provide financial assistance or care services funded by Medicaid to residents that live in assisted living communities. However, the Department of Aging Waiver does provide personal care assistance in domiciliary care homes, which can be thought of as adult foster care. There is also the Community HealthChoices Program, a managed care program, which provides personal care assistance in domiciliary care homes. Additionally, PA offers a supplement to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to persons who are living in non-nursing residential care.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / PA Dom Care (Domiciliary Care Program)
Rhode Island	Rhode Island has a program called SSI Enhanced Assisted Living that provides up to approximately $1,500 / month to be put toward the cost of assisted living. However, this is not a Medicaid program. RI does have a Medicaid program called RIte @ Home, which offers 24/7 personal care in a caregiver’s home, but not in assisted living communities. Finally, the state’s Global Consumer Choice Compact Waiver covers supported services in assisted living.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Home & Community Care Co-Pay
South Carolina	South Carolina Medicaid under the Community Choices Waiver includes assisted living as a benefit.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
South Dakota	Under South Dakota’s HCBS Waiver for the Elderly, (now called the HOPE Waiver) services in assisted living communities are covered.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Tennessee	TennCare CHOICES in Long-Term Care Program helps participants who wish to reside in assisted living communities by paying for nursing and personal care services in those communities. Room and board, however, are not considered eligible expenses for the Medicaid Waiver.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Texas	Texas Medicaid will cover the cost of services provided in an assisted living community through the state’s STAR PLUS program. The cost of room and board is not included.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Community Care for Aged/Disabled
Utah	Utah Medicaid pays for services in assisted living residences via the New Choices Waiver.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Vermont	Vermont’s Choices for Care Medicaid Waiver operates under the Global Commitment to Health Waiver and continues to pay for services in non-nursing home, residential care facilities. Another Medicaid option is Assistive Community Care Services. Finally, there is the Attendant Services program.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Home Sharing Program
Virginia	Virginia does not currently have a Medicaid program that helps to pay for assisted living. However, while the VA Adult Services program does not provide care services in assisted living, it does provide assisted living assessments.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / Auxiliary Grant
Washington	Washington has Medicaid waivers and programs that provide help for residents in assisted living or adult family care. Two of the options, the Medicaid Personal Care program and the Community First Choice program, are state plan options that provide care assistance. The COPES Program also has an assisted living option, as does the New Freedom Program. Finally, the Nurse Delegation Program is a unique program that trains non-medical caregivers to assist with some medical related tasks	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
West Virginia	West Virginia, through its Medicaid Personal Care option, will pay for personal care for state residents if they live at home or in assisted living, but does not cover rent.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options
Wisconsin	Wisconsin, in a limited capacity, provides services to state residents that live in assisted living communities through the Family Care program, which is designed to replace COP-W. Another option is Personal Care, provided under the general Medicaid program. Finally, persons can receive care assistance in assisted living residences via IRIS.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options / SSI-E
Wyoming	Wyoming Medicaid offers the Community Choices Waiver. This program will pay for a variety of personal care and nursing services for residents in assisted living, but notably does not pay for their room and board costs.	Other Financial Assistance / Affordable Care Options

Does Medicaid cover memory care in Texas?

In Texas, Medicaid doesn't directly cover memory care. However, seniors who qualify for Medicaid can apply for the STAR+PLUS waiver, which replaced the Community Based Alternatives (CBA) waiver in 2014. The managed care program is available for eligible adults aged 65 and over and adults with disabilities.

Will Medicaid pay for assisted living in Washington state?

Washington is one of the few states where Medicaid directly covers the cost of assisted living facilities for eligible seniors. Certain facilities are directly contracted by Apple Health to provide care to older adults who qualify.

Does Medicaid pay for memory care in CT?

Connecticut Medicaid Programs for Memory Care This program doesn't cover memory care services directly, but it operates the Connecticut Home Care Program for Elders, which pays for services in long-term care communities.

Does Medicaid pay for assisted living in Florida?

In Florida, Medicaid can be used to pay for an elderly relative's nursing home, assisted living facility, or in-home nursing care. Medicaid pays a fixed daily rate to cover costs such as a patient's room, meals, staff care, and medical supplies, possibly for the remainder of their life.