OT- TEFRA

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Here's a link that will give you more info:

http://www.bazelon.org/issues/children/publications/TEFRA/fact2.htm

I just copied this chunk from that site:

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Issue

Twenty state Medicaid programs use the eligibility option known as TEFRA or

Beckett to expand eligibility to certain children with physical and mental

disabilities.

In other states, policymakers have indicated that more information on TEFRA

implementation would help them make a decision about whether to adopt this

option.

TEFRA

The TEFRA option permits children with physical or mental disabilities (as

defined in SSI regulations) to be offered home-based services instead of

placement in an institution. Under current law, these children are covered under

Medicaid while in the institution after the first 30 days; at that time their

family's income and resources are no longer counted and so the child becomes

financially eligible. If these children meet the federal definition of

disability, they then become Medicaid-eligible. >>

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It doesn't say which twenty states have this option... but I'm pretty sure mine

is not one of them (Washington state). We have a Medicaid waiver program for

disabled kids ... but there's no funding. We've been on a waiting list for

seven years and no one has moved off of it in all that time.

Patti