Guides to Wisconsin's rules
How Wisconsin Licenses Assisted Living
Wisconsin runs four separate license/certification types -- CBRF, RCAC, adult family home, and nursing home -- rather than one single assisted living license.
Read →Memory Care: Disclosure or Certification in Wisconsin?
Wisconsin requires neither a separate memory-care certification (like Texas) nor a written disclosure form (like Ohio) -- memory care here is a CBRF/RCAC program-statement designation.
Read →How to Verify a Facility's License
The state tools that show license status and inspection history, and why a clean review page means nothing about the regulatory record.
Read →Medicaid Expansion vs. Long-Term Care Medicaid
Wisconsin has not adopted the ACA's Medicaid expansion, and that is a different question entirely from long-term-care Medicaid eligibility for seniors.
Read →Family Care: Wisconsin's Managed Long-Term Care Program
Family Care is Wisconsin's managed long-term-care Medicaid program that can pay for care services -- not room and board -- inside a CBRF or RCAC.
Read →IRIS: Wisconsin's Self-Directed Medicaid Program
IRIS lets a Wisconsin Medicaid long-term-care participant self-direct their own in-home supports and hire their own workers -- but only outside a CBRF or nursing home.
Read →Medicare/Medicaid Coordination in Wisconsin
Wisconsin's Family Care and IRIS programs coordinate long-term-care Medicaid benefits for members who often also have Medicare, rather than running a separate branded dual-eligible demonstration.
Read →The Local Ombudsman and Filing Complaints
Two different systems: the free, independent long-term care ombudsman, and the state health department complaint line. Here is when to use each.
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