Home- and community-based services (HCBS) are a way to fill gaps in care for seniors with complex medical conditions, with Medicaid being the main source of coverage for long-term services and supports (LTSS).
As of 2020, over 2.5 million individuals received HCBS services, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Still, there are hundreds of thousands of other individuals on waiting lists, with many forced to turn to the “underground” and unregulated caregiving market.
Some LTSS stakeholders had hoped that the $400 billion investment in HCBS proposed by President Joe Biden would become the solution to shortening those long waiting lists, which could take years to move past. The likelihood of that full amount of funding being realized has been all but erased, however.
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