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Medicaid/CHIP: Long-Term Care

Money Follows the Person Demonstration: An Early Implementation Snapshot
This issue brief examines the early successes and challenges of the Money Follows the Person Demonstration, a Medicaid initiative enacted into law in 2006 and implemented the following year that helps states rebalance their Medicaid long-term care programs by providing more services in the community and fewer in institutional settings.

Medicaid Home and Community-Based Service Programs: Data Update
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.

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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.

Examing the Role of Private Long-Term Care Insurance in the Financing of Long-Term Care -- June 2009
This policy brief and related congressional testimony examine the fundamentals of private long-term care insurance, including how consumers buy policies, how much policies cost and how they work, and what regulations exist to protect consumers. They also discuss the challenges of possibly enlarging the role of private long-term care insurance in financing long-term care.

Closing the Long-Term Care Funding Gap: The Challenge of Private Long-Term Care Insurance -- June 2009

This policy brief examines the fundamentals of private long-term care insurance, including how consumers buy policies, how much policies cost and how they work, and what regulations exist to protect consumers. It also discuss the challenges of possibly enlarging the role of private long-term care insurance in financing long-term care

Filling In The Long-Term Care Gaps -- June 2009

At a June 3 hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Diane Rowland, Executive Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation and Executive Director on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, testified on the key challenges to providing a larger role for private long-term care insurance in financing long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities.

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.

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.

Vermont's Choices for Care Medicaid Long-Term Services Waiver: Progress and Challenges As the Program Concluded Its Third Year -- November 2008

This case study report examines the experience of Vermont's Choices for Care experiment in delivering long-term services, created through a five-year Medicaid waiver in 2005. The state has seen a shift of people and money toward community settings, but also the return of waiting lists for some populations.

Headed for a Crunch: An Update on Medicaid Spending, Coverage and Policy Heading into an Economic Downturn -- September 2008

This eighth annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and state budget actions finds enrollment began to rise in fiscal year 2008 with states expecting even larger increases for fiscal year 2009. With the increased enrollment, Medicaid spending is also rising more rapidly than in the recent past.

This policy brief and related congressional testimony examine the fundamentals of private long-term care insurance, including how consumers buy policies, how much policies cost and how they work, and what regulations exist to protect consumers. They also discuss the challenges of possibly enlarging the role of private long-term care insurance in financing long-term care.

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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Long-Term Care

Medicaid is the major source of financing for long-term care for the elderly and persons with disabilities, accounting for 42 percent of national spending on long-term care and almost 50 percent of spending on nursing home care. Medicaid provides critical assistance to people with long-term care needs in the community and nursing homes, covering services often excluded from Medicare and private insurance.