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Medicaid’s Rehabilitation Services Option: Overview and Current Policy Issues
In 2007, the President reintroduced a plan to place new restrictions on the types of services allowable under the Medicaid rehabilitation services option. Currently, 47 states plus the District of Columbia provide at least some type of services under the option. A new brief provides an overview and explores current policy issues.

Diane Rowland Testifies Before Congress About Medicaid’s Role for People With Disabilities
Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Foundation, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health about Medicaid’s development as a vital source of coverage for people with disabilities and its current role providing coverage and access to health services and supports for this population.

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Money Follows the Person: An Early Implementation Snapshot -- June 2009

This issue brief examines the early successes and challenges of the Money Follows the Person Demonstration, a Medicaid initiative enacted into law in 2006 that gives states enhanced federal support to balance their Medicaid long-term care programs by providing more services in the community and fewer in institutional settings.

Congressional Testimony on Expanding Health Care Coverage -- May 2009
This contains the prepared written testimony of Foundation Executive Vice President Diane Rowland and Vice President Gary Claxton, who each testified May 5, 2009, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance's Roundtable On Health Care Coverage.

Where Does the Burden Lie?: Medicaid and Medicare Spending for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries -- April 2009

This issue brief analyzes the demographic and health characteristics of people who are simultaneously eligible for Medicaid and Medicare, as well as their patterns of service utilization and spending under both programs.

Rethinking Medicaid's Financing Role for Medicare Enrollees -- February 2009

This report examines coverage of the nearly 9 million "dual eligible" beneficiaries and explores the national and state impacts of shifting the financing of selected services for this population from Medicaid to Medicare.

Dual Eligibles: Medicaid Enrollment and Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries in 2005 -- February 2009

This report provides the latest national and state data on Medicaid enrollment and spending for individuals enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare, also knows as dual eligibles. Nationally, there are about 8.8 million dual eligibles. Although they comprise 18 percent of the Medicaid population, they account for 46 percent of Medicaid spending.

Medicaid and Long-Term Care Services and Supports -- February 2009

This fact sheet provides an overview of long-term care services, delivery of such services, and the large role Medicaid plays in financing long-term care.

Dual Eligibles: Medicaid's Role for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries -- February 2009

This updated fact sheet describes the nearly 8.8 million "dual eligibles," the low-income elderly and persons with disabilities who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, why this population needs Medicaid, what services they receive from Medicaid, and the current policy challenges related to dual eligibles, including the financing of their care.

Medicaid Home and Community-Based Service Programs - Data Update -- December 2008

This report presents a summary of the main trends to emerge from the latest (2005) spending and participant data for the three Medicaid HCBS programs and the results of a survey of policies such as eligibility criteria and waiting lists.

Medicaid: A Primer 2008 -- December 2008
The primer provides an overview of the basic components of Medicaid, the nation's largest health coverage program, which covers 59 million low-income individuals, including children and families, people with disabilities and the elderly who are also covered by Medicare.

The Medicaid Program at a Glance - UPDATE -- November 2008

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicaid program, the populations that it serves and the services that it covers.

This contains the prepared written testimony of Foundation Executive Vice President Diane Rowland and Vice President Gary Claxton, who each testified May 5, 2009, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance's Roundtable On Health Care Coverage.

This fact sheet provides an overview of long-term care services, delivery of such services, and the large role Medicaid plays in financing long-term care.

The primer provides an overview of the basic components of Medicaid, the nation's largest health coverage program, which covers 59 million low-income individuals, including children and families, people with disabilities and the elderly who are also covered by Medicare.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicaid program, the populations that it serves and the services that it covers.

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Medicaid/SCHIP: People with Disabilities
Medicaid is the single largest source of health care financing, public or private, for people with disabilities – covering over 8 million people under age 65 with disabilities. Medicaid covers individuals with a wide range of disabilities, including physical impairments and limitations like blindness and spinal cord injury; severe mental illness, and other disabling conditions, such as cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, Downs Syndrome, mental retardation, muscular dystrophy, autism, spina bifida, and HIV/AIDS. Medicaid covers services ranging from physician care and prescription drugs to behavioral health and long-term care support services that are often critical to enabling individuals with disabilities to work or live in the community.