State gets mental-health waiver

HELENA - A rare Medicaid waiver granted Montana will help support home-based care for some of the state's residents with disabling mental illnesses.

The waiver approved by the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services is only the second of its kind nationwide, said Joyce DeCunzo of the state Addictive and Mental Disorders Division.

Montana will be permitted to spend Medicaid money on in-home services not usually covered, services that include home-delivered meals, private-duty nursing and transportation, DeCunzo said.

I think Michigan's is the other MH waiver.

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