Residential Treatment * Need Help with Medicaid Please

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I'm looking for some advice on Medicaid and residential treatment from those who

have gone before me. If this is best done privately, then please contact me that

way. My PDD-NOS son is in desperate need of residential treatment for severe

behavior problems and there is a Palm Beach treatment center/school that seems

to be the best answer. However, the center will only take Medicaid. I am

divorced and my son is on CMS Title 21 through UMBH, and an HMO through the EX's

job. Neither will cover long term residential. Does my son need to be

'uninsured' in order to apply for Medicaid? I'm not really understanding how I

can get him the help he needs. They make it so difficult! We were denied

Medwaiver in " Crisis " because he is PDD-NOS not ASD. He's behavior is escalating

as he is 11 and between the meds and the hormones it has become violent. He's

been Baker Acted 2x already, and that was worthless too because they release him

once he is 'stable', and he cannot be admitted anywhere else for long term

unless we have Medicaid. Medicaid seems to be the golden ring, but I can't grab

it.