{"id":28508,"date":"2020-08-12T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28508"},"modified":"2020-08-12T10:35:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:35:25","slug":"medicaid-buy-in-program-changes-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28508","title":{"rendered":"Medicaid buy-in program changes approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Aug. 12 that makes changes to a program meant to help individuals with disabilities maintain employment while retaining Medicaid coverage.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20130\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20130\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20130\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sencrawford_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Sue Crawford&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Sue Crawford&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20130\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Sue Crawford\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenCrawford_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Sue Crawford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB323, introduced last session by Bellevue Sen. Sue Crawford, updates eligibility standards for Nebraska\u2019s Medicaid Insurance for Workers with Disabilities program\u2014commonly referred to as the Medicaid buy-in program\u2014from federal Balanced Budget Act standards to more recent federal Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act standards.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also lowers the premium cap from 10 to 7.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>LB323 passed on a 46-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Aug. 12 that makes changes to a program meant to help individuals with disabilities maintain employment while retaining Medicaid coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-28508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-sue-crawford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28511,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28508\/revisions\/28511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}