Using Medicaid to Support Working Age Adults with Serious Mental Illness in the Community: A Handbook

Article Publication Date:

1/1/2005

Summary:

Medicaid is the major public payer of community services and supports for working age adults with serious mental illnesses. This handbook explains how existing Medicaid options and waivers are used by states to finance a broad range of community services and supports for adults with serious mental illnesses, and demonstrates what aspects of state-of-the art community services and supports for this population are funded by Medicaid.

Article Author:

Smith, Gary; Kennedy, Cille; Knipper, Sarah; O'Brien, John; O'Keeffe, Janet

Topics:

Consumer/Participant Direction; Medicaid Waivers; Medicaid

Types/Tools:

Reports

Populations:

Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities; Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness

Sources:

HSRI

Programs/Initiatives:

N/A