Indiana's PathWays Waiver, part of the Indiana PathWays for Aging program launched July 1, 2024 for Hoosiers 60 and older, can pay for care services inside a licensed Residential Care Facility that holds a waiver provider agreement. It does not cover room and board -- that runs through a separate program, RCAP.
The detail behind the program
PathWays replaced Indiana's older Aged & Disabled Waiver in 2024 and is administered through the Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning, with CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions handling local case management for this region. Before assuming a community's waiver relationship will cover your parent's stay, ask two direct questions: does this community hold a current PathWays provider agreement, and separately, does it also hold an RCAP room-and-board agreement? A community can hold one without the other, and a 'yes, we take Medicaid' answer sometimes only covers one half of the actual bill.
