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A Katie Beckett waiver or TEFRA waiver is a Medicaid waiver concerning the income eligibility for home-based Medicaid services for children under the age of nineteen. Prior to the Katie Beckett waiver, if a child with significant medical needs received treatment at home, the child's income would be deemed to include the parents' entire ...
April 16, 2024 at 7:33 PM. U.S. District Judge Janis Jack has presided over a federal lawsuit against Texas' troubled foster care system for more than a decade. A day after a federal judge ordered ...
Medicaid Waiver programs help provide services to people who would otherwise be in an institution, nursing home, or hospital to receive long-term care in the community. Prior to 1991, the Federal Medicaid program paid for services only if a person lived in an institution. The approval of Federal Medicaid Waiver programs allowed states to ...
Home and Community-Based Services waivers (HCBS waivers) or Section 1915 (c) waivers, 42 U.S.C. Ch. 7, § 1396n §§ 1915 (c), are a type of Medicaid waiver. HCBS waivers expand the types of settings in which people can receive comprehensive long-term care under Medicaid. Prior to the creation of HCBS waivers, comprehensive long-term care was ...
Texas universities eliminated or changed hundreds of jobs in recent months in response to one of the nation's most sweeping bans on diversity programs on college campuses, school officials told ...
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services ( TEJAS) is a non-profit organization based in eastern Houston, Texas. It was established in 1995, and is dedicated to protecting the environment through policy, community awareness, legal proceedings, and education. They believe that everyone is entitled to live in a healthy, clean environment. [1]
1889 – Ugly laws were enacted in Denver, Colorado and Lincoln, Nebraska in 1889. 1894 – An ugly law was enacted in Columbus, Ohio in 1894. 1891 – An ugly law was enacted for the state of Pennsylvania in 1891. This law contained language applying to cognitive disability as well as physical disability.
The funding also includes: $200 million toward iBudget Waiver providers, which offer social, medical, behavioral and therapeutic services to people with developmental disabilities. $64.8 million ...