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'Community First Choice Option'

Governor: Use tobacco settlement money to reduce disability waiting list

Hutchinson said the money should clear between 500 and 900 people from the 3,000-person waiting list. That's good news, as long as it 's not the end of the road.
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Gov. Asa Hutchinson pledges to cut developmental disability waiting list in half in three years

Addressing the Medicaid Advisory Council today at the Capitol, Gov. Asa Hutchinson pledged to reduce the waiting list for a Medicaid waiver program that provides services offering home and community-based care for developmentally disabled children. Currently, around 2,600 families are stuck on the wait list, some of them for years. Hutchinson promised to cut that list in half within three years. His plan is to use savings and revenues that the state would accrue via his plan to use managed care companies to enact cost-saving reforms for certain high-cost populations in the traditional Medicaid program.
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Survey data suggests that state could affordably offer some services to families on developmental disability wait list

The state's consultant, the Stephen Group, conducted a survey of the 2,600 Arkansas families stuck on a wait list for a waiver program that provides Medicaid services offering home and community-based care for developmentally disabled children. The Stephen Group presented their findings in testimony before the Health Reform Legislative Task Force today, and suggested that one way to give the families some relief would be to provide certain benefits which are less costly while the state tries to come up with politically feasible ways to eliminate the wait list and provide full benefits to everyone who is eligible.

Disability advocates prod legislators on clearing waiver waiting list

Advocacy groups for disabled people and their families today sent a letter to the co-chairs of the Health Reform Task Force asking for some answers on the continually deferred issue of home- and community-based services waivers for care.
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Texas moves towards home- and community-based services for disabled people, via Community First Choice

The Dallas Morning News reports on Texas' implementation of a Medicaid reform initiative that's been the subject of an ongoing, low-level battle in the Arkansas legislature: the Community First Choice Option, a program that would allow people in need of long-term care to get services at home or in their communities, rather than being institutionalized.

Health Reform Task Force releases consultant's report; recommends continuing private option, with tweaks

The Health Reform Legislative Task Force's consultant, the Stephen Group, is releasing its final report on the future of health reform and the private option in Arkansas. Get excited.
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It's time to move to home-community-based care and away from institutions

The legislature's health care consultant highlighted one of the most wasteful and inhumane health care issues in the state: Medicaid's reliance on institutions in caring for the elderly and the disabled, rather than using home or community-based services. It did not, however, endorse the Community First Choice Option.

Hutchinson: CFCO is issue for Healthcare Task Force, bill's time frame infeasible

It sounds like Gov. Asa Hutchinson will not be supporting the bill by Rep. Josh Miller (R-Heber Springs) to require the state to clear its eight year waiting list for developmental disabilities waivers.
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Bill would require state to clear waiting list for Medicaid developmental disabilities waiver

Tomorrow, the House Public Health committee is expected to vote on a bill by Rep. Josh Miller (R-Heber Springs) that would pave the way for implementing the Community First Choice Option (CFCO). Expect the nursing home lobby to put up a fight.

Disability rights activists demand legislative action on Community First Choice Option

Advocates of the disabled and the elderly rallied at the Capitol rotunda this morning to urge the legislature to sign off on the Community First Choice Option (CFCO), the federal program that would allow individuals who qualify for institutional care under Medicaid to instead receive at-home or community-based services. Among those who showed up: Republican Rep. Josh Miller, a staunch foe of the private option but a friend of the CFCO.
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The Community First Choice Option

The Community First Choice Option is intended to nudge state Medicaid policy away from default institutionalization and toward encouraging home/community-based care.

Family vs. institutional care in Arkansas

It's cheaper to provide care for the disabled and elderly in their own homes than in institutions. So why is the legislature blocking reform?
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