Connecticut Medicaid Resources

• State Medicaid Website: Connecticut
• Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities Website
• The Arc of Connecticut

Connecticut Medicaid Facts: From Kaiser Family Foundation Medicaid Fact Sheet (2009)

There are 68,200 people with a disability using Medicaid in Connecticut. The state spent $21,650 on each Medicaid recipient with a disability in 2007.

13% of the people covered by Medicaid in Connecticut have a disability, which is almost the same as the national percentage of 15%.

Connecticut spends 38% of all of the money it spends on Medicaid on services for people with disabilities, which is also almost the same as the national percentage of 42%.

Connecticut Husky

This program insures children in Connecticut, including children with special needs as defined by the state. A dental ASO plan also insures adults with disabilities for dental services.

Ages: 19 and under (also has dental for adults)

• Community: transportation
• Health: chiropractic, disease management, durable medical equipment, early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment, family planning, hearing, hospice, immunization, hospital, inpatient mental health, intermediate care facilities, laboratory, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician, podiatry, skilled nursing facility, speech therapy, vision, x-ray
• Home: home health care, personal care
• Social Services: case management

Individual and Family Support waiver

This waiver is designed to provide services to people with disabilities who live in their own homes or in family homes. This waiver is intended to support people who do not need the level of care that requires 24-hour support.

• Community: adult day care, non-medical transportation
• Health: habilitation, personal emergency response systems, specialized medical equipment and supplies
• Home: personal assistance, adult companion services, supported living, respite, home and vehicle modifications, family training, family and individual consultation and support
• Social Services: interpreter services, consultation
• Work: supported employment

Comprehensive Supports Waiver

This waiver is used to help pay for people who live in Community Living Arrangements, Community Training Homes, or Assisted Living. It also applies to people who live in family homes who require a level of support higher than that offered under the Individual and Family Support waiver.

• Community: transportation
• Health: personal emergency response systems, consultation, specialized medical equipment and supplies
• Home: personal assistance, adult companion services, respite, supported living, residential habilitation (in a CLA or CTH), assisted living, home and vehicle modifications, family and individual consultation and support
• Social Services: interpreter services

Connecticut Individual Plan

The Individual Plan accounts for all of the needs of the individual, regardless of funding source. Money used to pay for individual plans may come from Medicaid waivers, state plan services, natural supports, and other resources.

Employment and Day Supports Waiver

This waiver provides an array of day activities, including supported employment, to adults with disabilities.

Ages: 21 and older

• Community: individualized day supports
• Work: temporary supported employment services, employment in sheltered workshops

Personal Care Assistance Waiver

Under this waiver, which is also designed to support home living for people with disabilities who need personal support, the person with a disability hires and pays their personal care attendant themselves. Medicaid will accept time sheets and mail a check directly to the support person. This waiver is for people who would need to be in an institution if they did not have personal support.

Ages: 18 to 64

Options for Self-Direction: Yes. The idea behind this waiver is for the person with the disability to control their own care, and choose to hire and pay their own caretaker.

• Home: personal care and homemaker services, including help with ADLs, home care, chores, grocery shopping, laundry