Assisted Living - Arkansas

Living Choices Assisted Living
Waiver Provider Information

Living Choices Assisted Living Provider Enrollment

A Living Choices Assisted Living Waiver "assisted living services" provider must be licensed as a Level II Assisted Living Facility or licensed as a Class A Home Health Agency who has a contract with a licensed Level II Assisted Living Facility to provide waiver services.
A Living Choices Assisted Living Waiver "pharmacist consultant services" provider must be licensed as a pharmacist and certified as a Consultant Pharmacist in Charge issued by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy and must have a written agreement with a licensed Level II assisted living facility to perform these services.
Providers must be certified by DAAS.
Providers must be enrolled with the Division of Medical Services Medicaid Provider Enrollment Unit as a Living Choices Assisted Living provider

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Living Choices Assisted Living Waiver
Eligibility & Services

Client Eligibility

To be eligible for Living Choices, you must:

Be age 65 and over, or age 21 and over and blind or physically disabled
Meet certain financial eligibility requirements as determined by Medicaid that include

Monthly Income No More than 300% of SSI
Resource Limit

$2,000 Individual
$3,000 Couple

Have medical needs that would require institutional care in a nursing facility at the Intermediate Level, if there were no waiver services. Applicants classified as skilled care patients are not eligible for Living Choices.

Must be nursing home placement/level of care eligible (meet medical criteria) as determined by the Utilization Review Section based on information on the DHS-703 completed by the DHS RN.

To meet medical criteria for the Living Choices waiver program the applicant must meet at least one of the following criteria as determined by a licensed medical professional.

1. The individual is unable to perform either of the following:

(A) At least one of the three activities of daily living (ADL) of transferring/locomotion, eating or toileting without extensive assistance from or total dependence upon another person; or

(B) At least two of the three activities of daily living (ADL) of transferring/locomotion, eating or toileting without limited assistance from another person; or,

2. The individual has a primary or secondary diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia and is cognitively impaired so as to require substantial supervision from another individual because he or she engages in inappropriate behaviors which pose serious health or safety hazards to himself or others; or,

3. The individual has a diagnosed medical condition which requires monitoring or assessment at least once a day by a licensed medical professional and the condition, if untreated, would be life threatening.

NOTE: Definitions related to the Nursing Home Admission Criteria
are available from the Division of Aging & Adult Services or
the Division of Medical Services' Office of Long Term Care upon request

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Arkansas Department of Human Services Division of Aging and Adult Services

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