Medicaid and Adult Care – North Carolina

Medicaid deadline jeopardizes residents of adult care homes, By Lynn Bonner, March 14, 2012, Charlotte Observer: “Thousands of families could soon be scrambling to find care for relatives living in the state’s adult care homes if the state continues to violate federal rules. The federal government has given the state Department of Health and Human Services until April 30 to have an approved Medicaid plan for people receiving personal care services. State officials acknowledge that they won’t meet the deadline and are working for an extension. If the state doesn’t get the extra time, thousands of people in adult care homes could be turned out because their full costs won’t be paid – about 20,300 people on Medicaid receive personal care services in adult care homes and about 25,500 receive in-home services. People receiving personal care at home would lose their services, too…”