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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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Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services in Medicaid: A Review of Four State Programs -- March 2008

This report examines consumer direction of personal assistance services in four states' Medicaid programs. Its findings are based on interviews with program administrators from California, Colorado, New York and Virginia.

Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services Programs in Medicaid: Insights from Enrollees in Four States -- March 2008

This report examines consumer direction of personal assistance services in four states' Medicaid programs. Its findings are based focus group interviews with CD-PAS enrollees from California, Colorado, New York and Virginia.

Medicaid’s Role for People With Disabilities -- January 2008

Diane Rowland 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.

Long-Term Service and Supports: The Future Role and Challenges for Medicaid -- October 2007

This report examines the structure and impact of Medicaid’s role in long-term care. Based on a roundtable discussion of policy makers and experts and drawn from a body of health services research, the report highlights policy challenges facing the Medicaid program today and identifies issues in providing long-term care going forward.

Learning From History: Deinstitutionalization of People with Mental Illness As Precursor to Long-Term Care Reform -- August 2007

This report examines what policy lessons can be learned from the deinstitutionalization of people with mental illnesses and applied to the potential long-term care reform for the elderly or those with significant disabilities.

Medicaid’s Rehabilitation Services Option: Overview and Current Policy Issues -- August 2007

This policy brief provides an overview of the Medicaid rehabilitation services option and explores current policy issues.

Medicaid Benefits: Online Database -- August 2007
This updated interactive database provides information on health services provided by each state's Medicaid program. Search the database by state or benefit and compare benefit packages from 2003, 2004 and 2006.

KaiserEDU.org Issue Module: Financing Long-Term Care -- March 2007
This KaiserEDU.org issue module discusses long-term care costs, Medicaid and Medicare's role in paying for care and role of private long-term care insurance.

Beyond Cash and Counseling: The Second Generation of Individual Budget-Based Community Long-Term Care Programs for the Elderly -- January 2007

This report describes 10 operating individual budget model programs that serve older persons, identifies four areas of program design that are of particular importance to the success of the individual budget model, and discusses their implications.

Aging Out of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT): Issues for Young Adults with Disabilities -- January 2007

This issue brief discusses the challenges and implications for young people with disabilities when they become adults and lose their Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefits, and how recent changes to the Deficit Reduction Act give states an opportunity to increase the availability of services that allow young, disabled adults to lead as normal a life as possible as they move into adulthood.

This policy brief provides an overview of the Medicaid rehabilitation services option and explores current policy issues.

This updated interactive database provides information on health services provided by each state's Medicaid program. Search the database by state or benefit and compare benefit packages from 2003, 2004 and 2006.

This KaiserEDU.org issue module discusses long-term care costs, Medicaid and Medicare's role in paying for care and role of private long-term care insurance.

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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.