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title: "Colorado Home Care Medicaid | Funding LTC Marketplace"
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description: "Colorado’s EBD Waiver is a nursing-facility alternative for older adults and qualifying adults with disabilities; the active waiver waitlist is DD."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
author: George A. Mellendorf, CLTC, LTCP (Central States Insurance Services, Inc.)
publisher: Funding LTC Marketplace
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Colorado · Home & Community Care

# Colorado Home Care Medicaid

Last updated 2026-10-20

Colorado's Home and Community-Based Services Elderly, Blind, and Disabled Waiver — almost always shortened to the EBD Waiver — exists as an alternative to nursing-facility placement. HCPF says the program serves people 65 and older with a functional impairment, people who are blind, and adults ages 18 through 64 with a physical disability. Both financial and program requirements apply, so age or diagnosis by itself doesn't decide enrollment.

HCPF's broader LTSS materials frame HCBS waivers as services delivered in a member's home and community rather than in a nursing home or other facility. That's the key policy distinction: this isn't simply extra money layered onto ordinary Medicaid, but a defined program with its own functional assessment, service plan, financial eligibility rules, and case management. Notably, HCPF currently identifies the Developmental Disabilities waiver — not the EBD Waiver — as the one HCBS waiver with an active waitlist, which CMS's federal HCBS waiver authority allows states to structure this way.

## Sources and official resources

- [Colorado HCPF: Long-Term Services and Supports](https://hcpf.colorado.gov/long-term-services-and-supports-programs)
- [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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