Visualizing Health Policy: A Short Look At Long-Term Care for Seniors
This infographic from the Visualizing Health Policy series, produced in partnership with JAMA, looks at long-term care for seniors.
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Testimony: What would strengthen Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports?
Issue BriefOn 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
FeatureMedicare 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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Faces of Dually Eligible Beneficiaries: Profiles of People with Medicare and Medicaid Coverage
Issue BriefThis brief examines the role of Medicare and Medicaid in the lives of dually eligible beneficiaries – low-income seniors and younger adults with disabilities who are eligible for both programs – through personal profiles. It includes a glossary of eligibility and service delivery system terms and state-level enrollment and expenditure data for dual eligibles.
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Improving the Financial Accountability of Nursing Facilities
ReportThis 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.
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The Role of Medicaid and Medicare In Women’s Health Care, JAMA, May 15, 2013
FeatureMedicare and Medicaid provide health coverage for three in ten women.
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Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports: Key Considerations for Successful Transitions from Fee-For-Service to Capitated Managed Care Programs
Issue BriefAlthough relatively few Medicaid beneficiaries are in capitated managed long-term services and supports (LTSS) programs, significant expansion is anticipated as more than half of states are implementing or proposing new programs that would include a transition from fee-for-service (FFS) to capitated managed care in the LTSS delivery system.
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How is the Affordable Care Act Leading to Changes in Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Today? State Adoption of Six LTSS Options
Issue BriefUnder the Affordable Care Act (ACA), states are afforded a number of new and expanded opportunities, including enhanced federal financing, to improve access to and delivery of Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS).
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Medicaid’s Benefits Reflect the Needs of the Population It Serves
FeatureMedicaid’s Benefits Reflect the Needs of the Population It Serves Download Source …
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Medicaid Has Many Vital Roles in our Health Care System
FeatureMedicaid Has Many Vital Roles in our Health Care System Download…