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Public Forum Slated for Community Waiver
Program 1115(a) Special Terms and Conditions
The Alabama Medicaid Agency invites
providers, recipients, advocates, and other interested individuals to provide
input during a public forum on the Community Waiver Program (CWP) 1115(a)
Special Terms and Conditions (STCs).
This forum is required by the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the 1115(a) Demonstration Waiver
that runs consecutively to the 1915(c) approved October 21, 2021, with an
effective date of October 1, 2021.
Comments will be received during a public forum on Wednesday, April 13th at 10 AM and 1 PM, virtually via Webex.
Webex Meeting – April 13, 2022
10:00 a.m.
https://medicaid.webex.com/medicaid/j.php?MTID=m0d7f8ae48797ca01f8a85b2617ce5e2f
Meeting Number 2595 248 4173
Meeting Password JoinAMAmeeting
Join by Phone 1-650-479-3208
Webex Meeting – April 13, 2022
1:00 p.m.
https://medicaid.webex.com/medicaid/j.php?MTID=mbf874c785505731407eeafd6e1bb4ebe
Meeting Number 2590 397 0312
Meeting Password JoinAMAmeeting
Join by Phone 1-650-479-3208
The Community Waiver
Program targets persons with intellectual disabilities not currently receiving
services through the current Home and Community-Based Services Waivers,
including the persons currently on the waiting list for the existing
Intellectual Disabilities or Living at Home Waivers. The new waiver program
offers services in five enrollment groups, based on age and relative
independence, each with a set of services designed particularly to serve them.
The Community Waiver Program focuses on maintaining family
relationships and promoting community inclusion and competitive employment,
which are of utmost importance to an individual’s health, well-being, and
happiness, by providing the needed supports that can enable individuals with
developmental disabilities to continue to live with family or in their own
homes.
The goals of the
Community Waiver Program (CWP) include, but are not limited to the following:
• Improve access to care by reducing and eventually eliminating the
current waiting list for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS).
•
Keep families together, support independent living, and provide
increased opportunities for self-direction.
•
Adopt a strategy for delivering HCBS that aims to prevent crisis
and escalation of needs for individuals who do not currently require an
institutional level of care.
•
Support the capacities
that individuals with ID have to contribute to their community through
participation in integrated community employment, while also better ensuring
their financial stability in continuing to live in the community.
Information on the Community Waiver
Program (CWP) is available on the following websites:
•
Alabama Medicaid Agency:
https://medicaid.alabama.gov/content/6.0_LTC_Waivers/6.1_HCBS_Waivers/6.1.9_Community_Waiver_Program.aspx
• Alabama Department of Mental Health:
https://mh.alabama.gov/community-waiver-program/