Oregon Receives Federal Approval for Limited HCBS For Seniors, Adults With Disabilities

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) intends to launch a Medicaid 1115 demonstration project to provide a limited set of home- and community-based services (HCBS) to adults with disabilities to help them avoid or delay entering Medicaid-funded institutional care. The demonstration program, called “Oregon Project Independence-Medicaid (OPI-M),” will run for five years, beginning on February 13, 2024. With the demonstration, the state has expanded eligibility standards to provide HCBS to Medicaid beneficiaries who need assistance completing activities of daily living (ADLs), but who do not meet the Medicaid nursing facility level-of-care criteria. Previously, access to . . .