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The application says that children need to be candidates for nursing home, or ICF (Intermediate Care Facility, a Medicaid facility that is half way between an institution and a group home).  I don't think that ADHD kids would be considered candidates for either of those.  My understanding of Katie Beckett, is that the child either needs to have substantial medical needs, or an Intellectual Disability, although significant ASD might well qualify too.[/quote]

So then, unless your child falls under the category of needing a nursing home or ICF, one cannot get a Medicaid waiver?  [/quote]

That is what the application and the law seem to say for this particular waiver.  Katie Beckett is designed as a cost cutting measure to keep kids out of hospitals, nursing homes and ICF's. To be clear, it's for children who would be candidates, not children whose parents are going to place them.  You can have no intention of sending your child to an ICF, but if your child would meet the guidelines to be admitted then it seems they qualify.

Having said all that, I have no idea how they qualify a kid as in need of an ICF.  They may feel that it's justified for kids that I would not feel it's justified.  However, I think that ADHD is unlikely to qualify a child.[/quote]

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