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Medicaid changes on track to revamp long-term care
New Jersey’s efforts to revamp Medicaid are on track, according to the governor’s policy advisors who spoke Tuesday at a conference presented by the Common Sense Institute of New Jersey, a public policy think tank.
New Jersey is seeking sweeping changes to the $11 billion state and federal Medicaid program, which provides healthcare to about 1.3 million low-income residents.
In its “comprehensive Medicaid waiver” submitted in September, New Jersey seeks to provide more care to the elderly and the developmentally disabled at home and in the community rather than in nursing homes and other residential institutions. (Fitzgerald, NJ Spotlight)