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Medical Services – Glossary

MS Manual 09/01/26

Facilities which Provide Services – Facilities which provide medically necessary care and services 24 hours per day on a long term basis include private nursing facilities, Benton Services Center, Arkansas Human Development Centers, private intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IIDs), and ICF/IID facilities with both over and under 15 beds. Fair Market Value – The amount that a buyer is willing to pay for property and that the seller is willing to accept. Family Member Allowance – The amount of income an institutionalized spouse (IS) can give to a dependent family member when there is also a community spouse (CS) of the IS in the home. Compute on DCO-712. Fictive Kin – Relationship assignment given by the Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) when there is an individual who is not related by birth, adoption, or marriage to a child, but who has an emotionally significant relationship with the child. Fraud – The willful intent to obtain benefits or payments that an individual is ineligible to receive. Home and Community Based Services Waiver – Services provided by certain Medicaid eligibility groups to individuals living in the community rather than in a Nursing Facility. Incapacitation – When by reason of minority or of impairment due to a disability such as mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness, chronic use of drugs, or chronic intoxication, the individual is lacking sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate decisions to meet the essential requirements for his or her health or safety or to manage his or her estate. Independence Account –

Any type of financial account approved by OCC that has been established after the initial date of eligibility in the Workers with Disabilities (WWD) category and that consists of savings from employment/earnings and/or retirement funds including employment sponsored retirement or pension accounts. This can be any type of account designated to be an Independence Account and approved by OCC. The individual may also have more than one account designated and approved as an Independence Accounts.

Ineligible Child - An ineligible child, for deeming purposes, is a natural or adopted child of an eligible individual or