America's Health Insurance Plans is asking Congress to include a national long term care partnership provision in a major budget reconciliation bill.[@@]
Lawmakers expect to start working Monday on a conference report that will resolve differences between the House and Senate budget bills.
LTC partnership programs, now available only through pilot programs in California, Connecticut, Indiana and New York, give states the ability to ease access to Medicaid nursing home benefits for residents who buy and exhaust private long term care insurance benefits.
