Mini tutorial...

[Guest guest]

I hope this clarifies some of the issues that have come up in recent

postings...thanks to one of our lurking experts for the information

Ellen

" Recent posts show " posters " don't understand the difference between

SSI which is welfare not paid from FICA and SSDI/DAC which is paid from

FICA and is therefore like insurance that the parents paid for. And

that with FICA paid for SSDI/DAC comes Medicare, and with SSI come

Medicaid. Also of recent there is misunderstanding of the difference

between Medicaid paid ICF/SODC and Medicaid Waiver paid CILA and Grant

paid SLA... Both ICF and CILA are paid for through HFS ( the post

refers to " public aide " vs. DHS " ), a division of DHS, just as DDD, DRS,

and DMH are divisions. The funding is Medicaid for both - except one

is via Waiver and one is not. The difference is their reporting, and

over-site. Department of Public Health covers ICF, DHS (DDD and OIG)

covers CILAs and SODCs. Also with the recent court settlement, even ICF

admissions will soon have to go through PAS/ISC, but currently do not. "

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[Guest guest]

This is scary. I've been a member for less than a year and I

understood most of this acronym blizzard. Pretty soon we'll know so

much about so little, we'll know wnothing at all.

Seriously, its a shame it has to be this complicated, but kudos for

the crisp precis'.

>

> I hope this clarifies some of the issues that have come up in

recent

> postings...thanks to one of our lurking experts for the

information

> Ellen

>

> " Recent posts show " posters " don't understand the difference

between

> SSI which is welfare not paid from FICA and SSDI/DAC which is paid

from

> FICA and is therefore like insurance that the parents paid for.

And

> that with FICA paid for SSDI/DAC comes Medicare, and with SSI come

> Medicaid. Also of recent there is misunderstanding of the

difference

> between Medicaid paid ICF/SODC and Medicaid Waiver paid CILA and

Grant

> paid SLA... Both ICF and CILA are paid for through HFS ( the post

> refers to " public aide " vs. DHS " ), a division of DHS, just as DDD,

DRS,

> and DMH are divisions. The funding is Medicaid for both - except

one

> is via Waiver and one is not. The difference is their reporting,

and

> over-site. Department of Public Health covers ICF, DHS (DDD and

OIG)

> covers CILAs and SODCs. Also with the recent court settlement, even

ICF

> admissions will soon have to go through PAS/ISC, but currently do

not. "

>

>

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