Long-Term Services & Supports
To Qualify for CHOICES
To be in CHOICES, you must:
- Need the level of care provided in a nursing home;
- AND Qualify financially for Medicaid reimbursement of long term care.
To qualify for Medicaid long-term care, your income can't be more than $2,094 per month. (If it is, you may be able to set up a Qualifying Income Trust.) AND, the total value of things you own can't be more than $2,000. (The home where you live doesn't count. And, you can't have given away or sold anything for less than what it's worth in the last five (5) years.)
CHOICES participation currently falls within one of two groups:
CHOICES Group 1 is for people who receive nursing home care. For more information about nursing home care please click here.
CHOICES Group 2 is for certain people who receive home care instead of nursing home care. It's only for:
- Adults 65 years of age and older;
- OR adults 21 years of age and older who have physical disabilities.
