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Medicaid Eligibility Manual Abbreviations/Acronyms/Definitions
Issued November 13, 2025 Page 4 of A-200 Replaces January 27, 2025
Revised/added text indicated by underscore Deleted text indicated by “**”
Cash Surrender Value – The amount of cash that a life insurance policy is worth upon surrender of the policy to the insurance company.
Category – Classification of applicants/beneficiaries based upon certain identifying requirements/categories: Aged (A), Blind (B), Parent and Caretaker Relative (C & M), Pregnant Women, Disabled (D), Medicare Beneficiaries (Q), Refugee (E), Tuberculosis Infected (TB), and Adults.
Certification – 1. The determination that the applicant's circumstances are within the standards for eligibility. 2. The identifying case and eligibility information maintained by the LaMEDS.
Certification Period – The length of time a beneficiary is certified for benefits.
Children's Choice Waiver – A waiver that offers supplemental support to individuals 0 to 20 years of age with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (defined as disabled according to SSI criteria), who currently live at home with their families, or who will leave an institutional setting to return home.
Collateral Contact – A third party (related or unrelated) who verifies an applicant/beneficiary’s circumstances.
Combined Countable Couple Resources – The total assets/resources (separate and jointly owned community property) owned by a couple included in the resource unit for a determination of eligibility.
Community Choices Waiver – Provides services in the home/community to seniors or adults with onset disabilities as an alternative to nursing facility care.
Community Property – Property acquired with community funds during a marriage that may be held in the name of one or both members of the couple.
Community Spouse – The legal husband or wife of an institutionalized individual who is not in a medical institution, nursing home or receiving Home and Community-Based Services and were living together in the same household with the institutionalized spouse.
Compensation – All money, real or personal property, food, shelter or services received at or after the time of transfer in exchange for an asset if the compensation was provided pursuant to a binding (legally enforceable) agreement in effect at the time of the transfer.
Constructively Received – Counting income or resources which could be received but have been refused.