Josephine Peters' family didn't expect the battle they would have to fight in order to get a Medicaid waiver. "We moved her to Bloom (at Kessler Senior Living in Indianapolis) at the end of April and applied for Medicaid in May. Around that same time, the FSSA instituted the waitlist for Medicaid waiver services," said Peters' granddaughter, Jo Lynn Garing. Peters was among more than 13,000 Hoosiers on that waitlist. On July 1, the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration implemented changes to its waiver program after an unanticipated $1 billion shortfall to its Medicaid budget. "What we were told was that because she lived here in an assisted memory care unit, she would not receive long-term care benefits until she moved to a nursing home," Garing said. That created financial concerns, not only on the family, but for the assisted living and memory care facility where she stayed. MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana-woman-103-dies-on-an-fssa-medicaid-waiver-waitlist/531-97f42a3c-39ee-4289-8bbd-0bb3d6a00ce7