Requires Medicaid to cover home care for people with disabilities and older adults.
This bill would make it mandatory for state Medicaid programs to cover home and community-based services for eligible people with disabilities and older adults. It would also provide 100% federal funding for these services and create programs to support the workers who provide this care and their family caregivers. This means more people could get care at home instead of in institutions, and families would have more support.
Today, access to home and community-based services through Medicaid often depends on state-specific waivers and can involve long waiting lists. States can also recover Medicaid costs from a person's estate after they die. After this bill, states would be required to offer these services, with 100% federal funding, and the practice of Medicaid estate recovery would end, protecting families.
HR 8540 · 119th Congress · April 28, 2026 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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