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title: "Arizona Nursing Home Medicaid | Funding LTC Marketplace"
url: https://fundingltcmarketplace.com/states/arizona/nursing-home-medicaid/
description: "ALTCS nursing-facility eligibility requires the PAS medical assessment, and share of cost uses a living-arrangement-specific personal-needs allowance."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
author: George A. Mellendorf, CLTC, LTCP (Central States Insurance Services, Inc.)
publisher: Funding LTC Marketplace
note: Educational content; not legal, tax or financial advice. Markdown copy of the HTML page at the URL above.
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Arizona · Nursing Home Coverage

# Arizona Nursing Home Medicaid

Last updated 2026-10-20

ALTCS is the pathway into nursing-facility Medicaid in Arizona. AHCCCS describes the program as serving people who need nursing-facility level of care, whether that care happens inside an institution or through home- and community-based services — so an eligible member doesn't have to actually be living in a nursing home. Whatever the setting, an applicant needing nursing-facility coverage still has to clear both the medical eligibility review and the financial application.

The key medical gatekeeper is AHCCCS's pre-admission screening, known as PAS. Under that policy, someone qualifies for ALTCS institutional or home-and-community-based services only if a nonpsychiatric medical condition or developmental disability requires nursing-facility or intermediate-care-facility level of care, as determined by the PAS assessment. A registered nurse or social worker conducts the assessment, and the resulting score gets measured against the relevant threshold — one for elderly or physically disabled applicants, another for developmentally disabled applicants.

## Sources and official resources

- [AHCCCS: ALTCS coverage for long-term care needs](https://www.azahcccs.gov/Members/GetCovered/Categories/ALTCS.html)
- [CMS: 2026 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards](https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/cib04272026.pdf)

Rules and figures change. Confirm current details with the agency before you act.

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