New York Application for a 1915 (c) HCBS Waiver
December 12, 2005
New York Application for a 1915 (c) HCBS Waiver
The Nursing Home Transition and Diversion (NHTD) Medicaid Waiver will provide community-based alternatives to individuals with disabilities, who are at least eighteen (18) years old, and eligible for nursing facility placement. The NHTD will allow waiver participants to avoid or transition from unwanted nursing home placement. Designed to promote waiver participant choice, NHTD waiver participants will choose:
(1) to receive NHTD services instead of nursing home services
(2) to receive NHTD services instead of other Home and Community
Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid Waiver services for which they . . .
