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title: "North Dakota Medicaid Long-Term Care | Funding LTC Marketplace"
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description: "How ND Medicaid, the Long-Term Care Unit, financial eligibility, and functional screening fit together for institutional and community care."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
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North Dakota · Medicaid Program

# North Dakota Medicaid Long-Term Care

Last updated 2026-10-20

North Dakota Health and Human Services administers ND Medicaid, and the agency's Medical Services Division serves as the main program contact. Long-term care under this program isn't a private insurance product — it's Medicaid coverage extended to a person with a disability or chronic illness that limits daily activities, provided that person meets both the financial and functional requirements HHS sets.

Coverage can be delivered in several settings: a nursing home, a basic care facility, a memory care facility, or through the state's Home and Community-Based Services Waiver. HHS requires a long-term-care applicant to fit a Medicaid coverage group, be age 65 or older, blind, disabled, or medically frail, demonstrate a medical need for long-term-care services, and meet the stated asset requirements — meaning the functional-need assessment and the financial-eligibility review happen as two separate but connected parts of the same case.

## Sources and official resources

- [North Dakota HHS: Medicaid Eligibility](https://www.hhs.nd.gov/healthcare/medicaid/eligibility)
- [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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