Flexible Accounting for Long-Term Care Services: State Budgeting Practices that Increase Access to Home-and Community-Based Services

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Article Publication Date: 
1/1/2012
Summary: 
This report presents budgeting and contractual strategies used in Arizona, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin. In different ways, these states have made substantial progress in transforming their LTSS systems by developing flexible accounting policies that have reduced NF utilization and captured the savings to support their HCBS programs.
Article Author: 
Hendrickson, Leslie; Mildred, Laurel
Populations: 
Dual Eligibles
Sources: 
Grantee produced
The SCAN Foundation
Programs/Initiatives: 
Money Follows the Person
Flexible Accounting; Global Budgeting; rebalancing; HCBS; bundled rates; nursing homes; nursing facility utilization; budgeting; incentivize; Medicaid managed LTSS

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