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Medicaid Spending by Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Users, FY 2010 Download Source KCMU and Urban Institute estimates based on FY 2010 Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-64 data.
Millions of Americans Experience Cognitive, Ambulatory, Self-Care, andor Independent Living Difficulties, 2012 Download Source U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, available at: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.
The 65 and Over Population Will More Than Double and the 85 and Over Population Will More Than Triple by 2050 Download Source A. Houser, W. Fox-Grage, and K. Ujvari. Across the States 2013: Profiles of Long-Term Services and Supports, AARP Public Policy Institute, September 2012, available at: http://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/research/public_policy_institute/ltc/2012/across-the-states-2012-full-report-AARP-ppi-ltc.pdf.
This issue brief details the various eligibility pathways by which individuals with disabilities and the elderly can qualify for Medicaid coverage. The program, which serves as a safety net for many of the nation’s poorest and sickest individuals, provides health coverage to nearly 60 million Americans, including 8.5 million with disabilities and 8.
On August 1, 2013, Diane Rowland, Executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation and Executive Director of the Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, testified
before the Federal Commission on Long-Term Care about ways in which the Medicaid program could be strengthened to better support low-income individuals with long-term services and supports needs.
This report examines nursing facility expenditures to assess relative spending increases in areas such as nursing services, administrative costs, and profits. Using California as a case study, it explores reimbursement by cost category and a standard medical loss ratio (MLR) as potential policy options to improve nursing facility financial accountability and care quality.
This Background Paper presents information on the disabled population, as well as alternative definitions of disability and the resulting impact on population estimates of the disabled population.
The Medicaid program is a source for many innovative practices in making long-term services and supports (LTSS) available to consumers. Jointly financed by the states and the federal government, Medicaid pays for 40 percent of LTSS spending the United States.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the passage of landmark federal legislation to improve the quality of nursing home care, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (known as OBRA 87), this video examines the history surrounding the law. The video includes a look at the state of nursing home care before the law, an overview of the legislative process that brought about the law, and recent developments in nursing home quality. The video features historical clips and new interviews of key individuals from government, the nursing home industry, and consumer advocates who were instrumental in the historical developments related to nursing home reform.
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