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Long Term Care, Medicaid, assisted living, low income older adults, negotiated risk,Assisted living operates without the same level of oversight as other health care providers. A fundamental issue, especially for those older adults who rely on Medicaid to pay for their health care and live in assisted living, concerns whether it provides home and community-based services in a home-like environment. The answer to that question and many other quality of care issues varies from state to state.
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- In Comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, NSCLC calls for strong standards for when assited living can be considered community-based and thus eligible for Medicaid HCBS ...
- Medicaid Payment for Assisted Living
- NSCLC has just completed a series of policy issue briefs and white papers entitled in which fundamental legal and quality of care issues are explored in depth and recommendations made to both federal ...
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Assisted Living Consumer Alliance Policy on Minimum Community Based Setting Criteria
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- The Assisted Living Consumer Alliance (ALCA) issues minimum criteria related to what is a community-based setting in terms of Medicaid funding....
- Law Journal Features Article on Expanded LTC Choices
- NSCLC's Eric M. Carlson notes that while consumer choice is positive, diminished consumer protection may result and he offers advice to help consumers navigate these trends. ...
- Protecting Low-Income Assisted Living Residents
- NSCLC recently published an issue brief focusing on Medicaid payment for assisted living. One concern is the unfair way in which Medicaid-eligible residents are sometimes treated by assisted living ...
- California Assisted Living Facilities Cannot Evict for Resident’s Transition to SSI Benefits
- The California Department of Social Services recently confirmed that an assisted living resident cannot be evicted for non-payment when he or she is approved for SSI by the Social Security Administrat...
- Questions to Consider When Evaluating Continuing Care Contracts
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- Assisted Living Concepts Ordered to Disclose Information in Evictions Investigation
- Investigating the systematic eviction of Medicaid-eligible assisted living residents, the New Jersey Public Advocate has obtained a court order compelling Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. (ALC), to prod...
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'Negotiated Risk' Unmasked
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- A new law review article provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of “negotiated risk” in assisted living. The article, written by NSCLC attorney Eric Carlson, appears in the current issue...
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Critical Issues in Assisted Living: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who's Providing the Care
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- This comprehensive report examines the assisted living laws of all 50 states in reference to three important questions. Who can be admitted? Who can be evicted? And how good is staffing and staff trai...
