Terms and Meanings
Some terms that we use in this chapter may not be familiar. These terms and their meanings are listed below.
- Durable Medical Equipment: Items or supplies you need to use regularly because of an injury or illness.
- Eligible: Meeting the program requirements to have coverage or get a service.
- Extended: To make a period of time longer.
- Facility: A health care building or practice.
- Hospice: Special services for a person who is in the final stages of their life and after their death.
- Individual: Single person.
- Palliative Care: Relieving someone of their symptoms.
- Qualify: Ability to have a service or coverage from a program.
- Respite: Relief for the primary caregiver of a person who is ill or disabled.
- Services: Care, treatments, testing, checkups, equipment, supplies, and other ways your health care providers help you stay healthy.
- Transportation: Being given a ride.
Waivers are agreements that allow Medicaid to provide services that are not usually covered, to eligible members. This helps them get the services they need while staying in their home and communities. We offer different waivers designed around meeting specific health needs and the desire to stay at home.
Autism Spectrum Disorder Waiver
This waiver is designed for members that are ages 0-17 and are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. This waiver offers:
- Assistive technology
- Community Connect services
- Remote GPS services
- Respite service management
Children's Hospice Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Waiver
This waiver is designed for members that are ages 0-21 and have a life-limiting diagnosis. This waiver offers:
- Bereavement counseling
- Case management
- Equipment and supplies
- Expressive therapy
- Hospice cares
- Palliative care
- Respite
- Skilled nursing cares
Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Waiver
This waiver is designed for members that are ages 65+ or members that are 18-64 and have a disability such as brain injury or dementia. This waiver offers:
- Adult day care
- Adult foster care
- Adult residential care
- Case management
- Chore
- Community support services
- Community transition services
- Companion services
- Home alterations/Durable Medical Equipment
- Emergency response
- Environmental modifications
- Extended personal care
- Family personal care
- Home delivered meals
- Homemaker
- Non-medical transportation
- Residential habilitation
- Respite care
- Supported employment
- Specialized equipment and supplies
- Transitional living services.
Medically Fragile Children's Waiver
This waiver is designed for members that are ages 3-17 and are medically fragile. This waiver offers:
- Case management
- Dietary supplements
- Environmental modifications
- Equipment and supplies
- Individual and family counseling
- In-home supports
- Institutional respite
- Nonmedical transportation services.
Traditional Individuals with Intellectual Disability/Developmental Disability Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Waiver
This waiver is designed for members that are of any age, diagnosed with an intellectual or developmental disability or related conditions, who meet the Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities level of care. This waiver offers:
- Adult foster care
- Behavioral consultation
- Community transition services
- Day habilitation
- Environmental modifications
- Equipment and supplies
- Extended home health care
- Family care option
- Homemaker
- Independent habilitation
- Individual employment support
- Infant development
- In-home supports
- Parenting support
- Prevocational services
- Residential habilitation
- Small group employment support services
You can learn more about our Medicaid waivers:
- Visit our Waivers webpage
- Toll-Free: 1-800-755-2604
- Local: (701) 328-7068
- TTY: 711
- E-mail: dhsmed@nd.gov
- Medical Services Division
600 E. Boulevard Ave., Dept. 325
Bismarck, ND 58505-0250 - Fax: (701) 328-1544