Medicaid’s Role for Dual Eligibles
These short profiles illustrate the help that Medicaid provides to four individuals who qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare.
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These short profiles illustrate the help that Medicaid provides to four individuals who qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare.
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This report updates a 1997 Foundation report to assess how states are implementing financial protections for the 16 million Medicare beneficiaries who are low-income.
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This issue brief compares the financial alignment demonstrations for beneficiaries who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid in states that have memoranda of understanding approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
This set of tables, prepared by the Urban Institue for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, presents the most current state by state data on Medicaid enrollment and expenditures for dual eligibles. Full Set of Tables (.
This report examines the impact of Olmstead v. L.C. five years after the United States Supreme Court’s 1999 landmark decision.
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