Revealing the Best Kept Secrets about Medicaid and Medicaid Waiver Programs: How to Help People Get into Waiver Programs and Stay There

Revealing the Best Kept Secrets about Medicaid and Medicaid Waiver Programs:

How to Help People Get into Waiver Programs and Stay There

June 10, 2025

11 AM - 1 PM

Registration Fees:

Member: $50   Non-member: $75

Location: In-Person at Opportunity Builders in Millersville, MD

This session is highly recommended for all professionals who serve people in Medicaid Waiver programs, including Coordinators of Community Services, Benefits Planners, residential and vocational service providers, personal attendant service providers and other advocates.

The Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) now requires all “state-only” funded people to apply for the Community Pathways Waiver.  Learn how some people can use Medicaid rules to qualify for the Waiver!

This webinar explains the rules and dispels key myths.  You’ll learn:

•    How some state-only funded people can qualify for the Community Pathways Waiver
•    Which Medicaid coverage groups are allowed for each Waiver (Community Pathways, Community Supports, Family Supports, Community Options and Traumatic Brain Injury)
•    Eligibility criteria for each of the key coverage groups
•    How a person can go to work and remain eligible for Medicaid and a Waiver program
•    How a person with assets over $2,000 or income over $2,901 per month may still qualify for Medicaid and a Waiver program
•    How a person who loses eligibility for one coverage group (i.e., by exceeding the financial limits) can enroll in a different coverage group to keep Medicaid           AND Waiver services
•    How a person who does not currently have Medicaid may qualify for it

Facilitator: Michael Dalto is a big, old benefits geek. He has delivered presentations on benefits and work incentives to thousands of people with disabilities, family members, and professionals since 1989. He created state certification for Maryland benefits counselors and provided training and technical assistance for the certification. He oversaw benefits counseling for the PROMISE project, a research grant that served youths who receive SSI and their families. He also consulted with the Institute for Community Inclusion of the University of Massachusetts Boston on the SGA Project, a research effort that tested interventions to support vocational rehabilitation consumers in Kentucky and Minnesota to work their way off Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. He has written training materials about benefits and provided technical assistance to Virginia Commonwealth University's National Training and Data Center. He now consults with Cornell University and the National Association of Blind Merchants.