The Alabama Medicaid
Agency (Medicaid) invites providers, recipients, advocates, and other
interested individuals to provide input during a public forum on the progress
of the Community Waiver Program (CWP).
This
forum is required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for
the 1115(a) Demonstration Waiver that runs concurrently with the 1915(c)
approved October 21, 2021, with an effective date of October 1, 2021.
Questions
and Comments will be received during a public forum on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at
9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., virtually via Webex. Please be advised that an ASL
interpreter will be provided during the specified times set for the forum.
CWP targets persons with intellectual disabilities
(ID) not currently receiving services through the current HCBS waivers,
including the persons currently on the waiting list for the existing
Intellectual Disabilities or Living at Home waivers. This waiver program offers
services in five (5) enrollment groups, based on age and relative independence,
each with a set of services designed particularly to serve them. CWP focuses
on maintaining family relationships and promoting community inclusion and
competitive employment, which are of utmost importance to an individual’s
health, well-being, and happiness, by providing the needed supports that can
enable individuals with developmental disabilities to continue to live with
family or in their own homes.
The goals of the CWP
include, but are not limited to the following:
- Improve access to care by reducing and
eventually eliminating the current waiting list for HCBS.
- Keep families together, support independent
living, and provide increased opportunities for self-direction.
- Adopt a strategy for delivering HCBS that aims
to prevent crisis and escalation of needs for individuals who do not currently
require an institutional level of care.
- Support the capacities that individuals
with ID must contribute to their community through participation in integrated
community employment, while also better ensuring their financial stability in
continuing to live in the community.
Information on the CWP is
available on the following websites: