The Medical Education Institute has published a Home Dialysis Central blog post on Medicare Waivers: The Best Kept Secret in Dialysis Home Health Care, which describes a program that allows people who don’t normally qualify for Medicaid, but who have fragile health, to get Medicaid funding for home care anyway. The program doesn’t cover dialysis itself, but it does cover home health care aides and other useful services. State agencies administer waiver programs that help seniors and people with disabilities, to ensure that these vulnerable populations can live independently in their homes and communities, and/or age in place. Thanks to these waivers, states can provide services to their residents that wouldn’t usually be covered by Medicaid. If you are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, you can have and use both for the services you need. The services they cover are not always the same. For example, Medicaid offers coverage for things like personal care services while Medicare does not. Find the MEI blog post at https://homedialysis.org/news-and-research/blog/346-medicare-waivers-the-best-kept-secret-in-dialysis-home-health-care.
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