Provides Medicaid coverage for assisted living and modifies low-income housing tax credit allocation criteria.
The ACCESS Act, or Assisted Living Affordability, Choice, Community, Empowerment, Savings, and Support Act, aims to integrate assisted living services into Medicaid, ensuring that costs for individuals in assisted living do not exceed the average per capita Medicaid cost for hospital or nursing facility services. It also amends the low-income housing tax credit allocation criteria to prioritize plans that reduce long-term care costs by providing services in non-institutional settings.
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