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Medicaid Acute and Long-Term Services and Supports Spending Per Enrollee, by Beneficiary Population, FY 2010 Download Source KCMU and Urban Institute estimates based on data from FY 2010 Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-64 reports.
Long-Term Care Costs Can Exceed Seniors’ Income Download Source MetLife Mature Market Institute. The 2012 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Day Services, and Home Care Costs, November 2012, available at: https://www.metlife.com/mmi/research/2012-market-survey-long-term-care-costs.html#keyfindings; U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2012 Annual Social and Economic Supplement, Table POV01.
Growth in Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports Expenditures, FY 2002 – FY 2011 Download Source KCMU and Urban Institute analysis of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-64 data.
Distribution of Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Expenditures as a Share of Total Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports Spending, FY 2011 Download Source Urban Institute estimates based on FY 2011 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-64 data.
Distribution of Medicaid Beneficiaries Who Use Long-Term Services and Supports, by Dual Eligibility Status, 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.
This brief summarizes the key issues identified and discussed by participants in Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured's July 16, 2013 roundtable meeting on state adoption of the new and expanded Affordable Care Act home and community-based services (HCBS) options. While states have made overall progress in rebalancing their long-term care systems in favor of community-based care, state adoption of ACA HCBS options has been relatively slow to date, despite the growing demand for HCBS among beneficiaries and the enhanced federal funding associated with several of these options.
This fact sheet summarizes the various Medicaid long-term services and supports provisions by funding authority.
This infographic from the Visualizing Health Policy series, produced in partnership with JAMA, looks at long-term care for seniors.
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.
Medicare Beneficiaries’ Utilization of Selected Medical and Long-Term Care Services, 2009 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare Current Beneficiary 2009 Cost and Use file.
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