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Technology Assisted Waiver

 

Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver  - Technology Assisted

The TA Waiver serves individuals who are age 0 through 21 years, chronically ill or medically fragile and  dependent upon a ventilator or medical device to compensate for the loss of vital bodily function and require substantial and ongoing daily care by a nurse, comparable to the level of care provided in a hospital setting, or other qualified caregiver under the supervision of a nurse to avert death or further disability.

Furthermore, the individual is hospitalized or at imminent risk of hospitalization, whose illness or disability, in the absence of home care services, would require admission to a hospital.

The individual must be determined eligible for Medicaid.

 

In addition to the medical technology dependency criteria, the individual must meet the nursing acuity needs criteria that identifies the level of skilled and unskilled care that is necessary to support the individual with his/her care needs so that he/she may remain in his/her own home. 

The nursing acuity takes a holistic look at the individual’s medical needs. The nursing acuity addresses 20 care elements of importance and assigns a point value representing the time it takes to deliver the nursing care tasks identified in each care element. These elements are identified as specific care needs relative to the medical diagnosis and/or medical technology for which the individual is dependent upon to compensate for loss of a vital body function

    The individual is determined TA waiver eligible if he/she meets all three of the following eligibility components:

    1. Meet the HCBS-Technology Assisted Waiver definition.
    2. Requires one or more of the identified primary medical technology (ies) and meet the minimum technology score for the specified age group.
    3. Meet the minimum nursing acuity level of care threshold for the specified age group.   

For further information contact:

Kimberly Pierson
Program Manager
785.296.6140
E-mail:  kimberly.pierson@srs.ks.gov