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title: "New Jersey Home Care Medicaid | Funding LTC Marketplace"
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description: "NJ FamilyCare MLTSS coordinates home and community-based supports through managed-care organizations for people meeting nursing-facility level of care."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
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publisher: Funding LTC Marketplace
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New Jersey · Home & Community Care

# New Jersey Home Care Medicaid

Last updated 2026-10-20

MLTSS is designed, in DMAHS's own words, to expand home- and community-based services, using managed-care organizations to coordinate care wherever it's delivered — a person's home, assisted living, a community residential setting, or a nursing facility (New Jersey MLTSS overview).

The MLTSS application guide describes comprehensive care available in assisted-living facilities, group homes, nursing homes, or a person's own home, with a stated goal of letting people who need nursing-home-level care live wherever they choose while still getting the care they need. Facility residence isn't a prerequisite for applying (2026 MLTSS application guidance).

That said, the clinical bar doesn't move just because care happens at home — an adult still needs to show hands-on assistance with three or more activities of daily living, or cognitive deficits requiring supervision and cueing across three or more of them, to meet New Jersey's published standard (New Jersey MLTSS clinical criteria).

## Sources and official resources

- [NJ Human Services: MLTSS Application Guidance](https://nj.gov/humanservices/dmahs/documents/about/NJFC-ABD-MLTSS-BRO-E-2026_Web.pdf)
- [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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