Income deductions for individuals subject to a MAGI-based methodology

This section applies to an individual residing in the individual's own home or in a specialized facility, workers with disabilities coverage, children with disabilities coverage, and to the Medicare savings programs. This section does not apply to an individual receiving nursing care services in a nursing facility, the state hospital, an institution for mental disease, a psychiatric residential treatment facility, an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities, or receiving swing-bed care in a hospital. Effective January 1, 2014. individuals subject to a MAGI-based methodology are allowed a standard deduction of five percent of the one hundred percent of poverty level applicable to the size of the individual's Medicaid unit.