 |
Just Released
|
|
|
Three Issue Briefs Provide Detailed
Data on Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Enrollment and Spending,
State Policy Trends and HCBS Waiver Waiting Lists
Medicaid is the primary source of coverage for
long-term services and supports, which help seniors and people with
disabilities with self-care and household activities. While state Medicaid
programs must cover such care in nursing homes, most home and community-based
services are optional, offer a way to counter the historical bias toward
institutional care and have been the majority of Medicaid’s long-term
services and support spending for over five years now. About 4.6 million
enrollees nationally received Medicaid HCBS in 2017, with joint federal and
state spending totaling $82.7 billion. Over 707,000 people were on HCBS
waiver waiting lists in 40 states as of 2017.
Three new briefs round up the latest data on
enrollment and spending, state policy trends and waiver
waiting lists in the program, drawing upon KFF's 17th annual survey of Medicaid home and community-based services enrollment, spending and program policies. They include appendix tables with detailed state-level data. The briefs are:
Filling the need for trusted information on
national health issues, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a
nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.
|
||
|
||
|
Connect with us:
    |
||
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Three Issue Briefs Provide Detailed Data on Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Enrollment and Spending, State Policy Trends and HCBS Waiver Waiting Lists
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment