Guides to your state's rules
How Texas Licenses Assisted Living
Texas tiers assisted living licenses by evacuation ability -- Type A and Type B -- rather than issuing one blanket license, under Health and Safety Code Chapter 247.
Read →Memory Care: Disclosure, Not a Separate License, in Texas
Texas requires a filed Alzheimer's/dementia Disclosure Statement (26 TAC Section 553.264) for any facility marketing memory care -- it does not issue a separate memory-care license.
Read →How to Verify a Facility's License
The state tools that show license status and inspection history, and why a clean review page means nothing about the regulatory record.
Read →Medicaid Expansion vs. Long-Term Care Medicaid in Texas
Texas has not expanded Medicaid under the ACA. That decision has no bearing on long-term-care Medicaid for seniors, a separate, decades-old eligibility pathway.
Read →STAR+PLUS HCBS, Explained
Texas's STAR+PLUS HCBS waiver pays for care services inside a participating assisted living facility -- room and board remains the resident's own responsibility.
Read →STAR+PLUS HCBS for In-Home Care, Explained
The same STAR+PLUS HCBS waiver that funds assisted-living-style care also funds in-home services for Fort Worth-area seniors who want to stay in their own home.
Read →STAR+PLUS Managed Care for Dual-Eligibles, Explained
STAR+PLUS is Texas's Medicaid managed care program for people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid, or who have a disability -- most Fort Worth-area seniors on Medicaid long-term-care services are enrolled in a STAR+PLUS plan.
Read →The Local Ombudsman and Filing Complaints
Two different systems: the free, independent long-term care ombudsman, and the state health department complaint line. Here is when to use each.
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