Medicaid

Interested in statistical analysis of MIG grant programs? The following presentation represents Idaho’s Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities (MWD) program. The program’s history and its’ current state are outlined here alongside graphs and charts with corresponding data. It’s an example of how to chart out a state’s MIG program alongside statistical analysis and could be beneficial to other states looking to do the same.

Choices about employment and lifestyle are often made without full understanding of the many rules. The State of Utah wants its service providers and teachers to understand all the options so they can inform and empower people with disabilities to have increased earnings and improved quality of life. The attached presentations are training materials detailing Medicaid Work Incentives. One presentation is directed at agency and provider personnel, and the other to future teachers.

This presentation was part of the 2007 Government and Vendor Fiscal/Employer Agent Workshop. This presentation provided an update on policies regarding self-direction, with an emphasis on those related to fiscal management activities. The session also answered some of the more frequently asked questions and explored some of the differences between section 1915(c) waiver programs and the new State Plan options for self-directed services.

This study of Consumer Directed Care, Florida's Cash & Counseling Demonstration program for children, examines the ways in which consumer direction affects the cost of Medicaid personal care services, as well as the cost and use of other Medicaid services. Outcome measures were drawn from Medicaid claims data for 1,002 children for the first two years post-enrollment.

This brief reviews the history and current status of federal special needs plans (SNPs) authority, with particular attention to provisions of interest to state Medicaid programs that have or are considering entering into contracts with SNPs to integrate or coordinate Medicaid long-term care services with Medicare primary, acute and prescription drug services for dually eligible beneficiaries. Key future changes to the program and a legislative history are outlined.

This series of chart books summarizes demographic, service utilization, and expenditure data for state fiscal years 2001 through 2008 on three Maryland Medicaid waiver programs — Older Adults, Living at Home, and Autism, and on nursing facility utilization among Maryland Medicaid recipients. These books are now available to the public online to monitor trends in these programs.

Arkansas’ Cash & Counseling Demonstration program, IndependentChoices, was studied to examine the ways in which consumer-direction affects the cost of Medicaid personal care services, as well as the cost and use of other Medicaid and Medicare services. The study also examines the affect the program had on service utilization.

This study of Florida's Cash & Counseling demonstration program, Consumer Directed Care (CDC), compares children's use of services and quality of care under traditional versus consumer-directed approaches to Medicaid HCBS.

This article discusses the benefits and opportunities presented as a result of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publishing the final Medicaid rule that permits Medicaid recipients to self–direct their own health care and supportive services. The rule is known as Self–Directed Personal Assistance Services Program State Plan Option (Cash & Counseling).

This presentation was given for the Administration on Aging Nursing Home Diversion and Modernization grantees. The presentation compares Medicaid requirements for a Cash & Counseling type option to non-Medicaid practices.