Medicaid — Intermediate Care Facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities — LTSS Months

SAS Name
MDCD_ICF_IID_LTSS_MOS

This variable is the number of months during the year where the beneficiary’s monthly level of care status code indicated that intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID) was required to meet a beneficiary's needs. Medicaid uses this information to determine Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) program eligibility.

Comments

CCW calculates this variable using the DE Disability and Need Supplemental file; we count each month where the CARE_LVL_STUS_CD_MM = '004' (Intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID)). Note that the care level status source variable from DE identifies five levels of care: hospital, inpatient psychiatric facility, nursing facility, intermediate care facility, or other type of facility. Each of these levels is included in MMLEADS. In addition, the MDCD_CARE_LEVEL_MOS variable is the total count of months during the year when any of these levels of care was indicated.

Values: 0-12, or null/missing (if no Medicaid enrollment or no care level status)

Source: T-MSIS DE file (derived)