New Choices Waiver
Purpose
This waiver helps eligible individuals to move out of nursing facility settings. Services are designed to help people transition out of a nursing facility and re-establish themselves back in the community.
Eligibility Requirements
- Must be 21 years plus 1 month old;
- The primary condition must not be attributable to a mental illness;
- The individual does not meet ‘Intensive Skilled’ level of care criteria; and
- The individual does not meet level of care criteria for admission to an intermediate care facility for people with mental retardation (ICF/MR)
In addition, eligible individuals must be:
- Receiving Medicaid reimbursed nursing facility care on an extended stay basis of 90 days or more; or
- Currently receiving Medicare reimbursed care in a licensed Utah medical institution (that is not an Institution for Mental Disease), on an extended stay of at least 30 days, and will discharge to a Medicaid certified nursing facility for an extended stay of at least 60 days; or
- Receiving Medicaid reimbursed services through another of Utah’s 1915(c) waivers and have been identified as in need of immediate or impending nursing facility care.
Limitations
- Serves a limited number of individuals (1000)
- Individuals can use only those services they are assessed as needing.
Waiver Services
- Adult Day Care
- Adult Residential Services
- Assistive Technology Devices
- Attendant Care
- Caregiver Training
- Case Management
- Chore Services
- Consumer Preparation Services
- Emergency Response Systems
- Environmental Accessibility Adaptations
- Financial Management Services
- Habilitation Services
- Home Delivered Meals
- Homemaker Services
- Institutional Transition Services
- Medication Assistance Services
- Non-medical Transportation
- Personal Budget Assistance
- Respite Care
- Specialized Behavioral Health Services
- Specialized Medical Equipment
- Supportive Maintenance