The two principal delivery routes
Georgia identifies Nursing Facility Medicaid as its institutional long-term-care route and lists four Section 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Services waivers: EDWP, ICWP, NOW, and COMP (Georgia LTSS overview; Georgia waiver programs).
The Elderly and Disabled Waiver Program uses two service-delivery models, SOURCE and CCSP, while NOW and COMP serve people with intellectual or developmental disabilities in coordination with DBHDD (Georgia waiver programs).
2026 financial baseline: an individual generally has a $2,000 countable-resource limit and a $2,982 monthly institutional/waiver income cap; the more current figures are in DFCS's policy manual even though Georgia's public consumer PDF still displays 2025 numbers (
Georgia DFCS Appendix A1;
Georgia 2025 consumer limits PDF).
Eligibility is more than a financial screen
Financial eligibility is only one part of access: nursing-facility and waiver paths also apply program-specific level-of-care and service criteria (Georgia LTSS overview; Georgia Aging Services eligibility criteria).
For EDWP community care, Georgia's published criteria include intermediate nursing-facility level of care, actual or potential Medicaid eligibility, a documented choice of community care, and community services costing less than the equivalent nursing-facility Medicaid rate (Georgia Aging Services eligibility criteria).
Compare this delivery structure with Florida's Medicaid long-term-care page, which describes a managed long-term-care system rather than Georgia's fee-for-service LTSS approach.
Where the broader funding framework fits
Medicaid may be only one piece of a care plan because the available path depends on care needs, resources, income, and the requested setting. The broader framework is on the Medicaid (Baseline) pillar.
Before applying, confirm the current DFCS rules and which agency or local program administers the requested service, because public consumer documents can lag the current policy manual (Georgia 2025 consumer limits PDF; Georgia DFCS Appendix A1).
Not mutually exclusive. Most families combine two or three funding pillars — this one rarely stands alone.
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