Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Programs

Proposed Waiver Renewal

Introduction

Utah has 4, 1915 (c) Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) waivers set to expire on June 30, 2024. These waiver programs are the:

  • Community Supports Waiver for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Other Related Conditions (CSW)
  • Community Transitions Waiver (CTW)
  • Waiver for Individuals Age 65 or Older (Aging Waiver)
  • New Choices Waiver (NCW)

In order to continue operations of these waivers, the Division of Integrated Healthcare (DIH), Office of Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS) acting as the State Medicaid Agency (SMA) is required to submit a renewal application no later than March 31, 2025 to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The SMA must submit a waiver renewal application to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) no later than March 31, 2024.

A copy of the proposed State Implementation Plan can be viewed here:

  • Community Supports Waiver: Word Copy | PDF
  • Community Transitions Waiver: Word Copy | PDF 
  • Aging Waiver: Word Copy | PDF 
  • New Choices Waiver: Will be posted at a later date with a separate 30-day comment period

An overview of the changes can be found in this Executive Summary: Word CopyPDF

Public Comments will be accepted through March 30, 2024 in the following ways:

Mail: Utah Department of Health and Human Services
     Division of Integrated Healthcare
     Attn: HCBS Waiver Public Comments
     PO BOX 143112
     Salt Lake City, UT 84114-3112

Advisory committee strategy report - November 2024.

The report was written and developed by the Strategy Report Advisory Committee as required by the Settlement Agreement between the State and the Disability Law Center in Christensen v. Miner.

The report includes “recommendations for policies and practices that the state may choose to implement to further reduce the institutionalized population of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in ICFs over the subsequent ten years."

General Information

Utah Has Nine Medicaid 1915(c) HCBS Waivers: