Missouri Medicaid Tries to Restrict Home Health Eligibility

from PHI - posted by Deane Beebe, written by Matt Ozga

Missouri's Department of Social Services has learned that it will be sanctioned by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for requiring that consumers be "confined to the home" to qualify for Medicaid-covered home health services.

Requiring someone to be homebound in order to receive home health services covered by Medicaid violates federal Medicaid law as interpreted by the Olmstead Update #3, issued by the federal Medicaid agency after the Supreme Court's 1999 Olmstead decision.

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