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Beyond Cash and Counseling: The Second Generation of Individual Budget-Based Community Long-Term Care Programs for the Elderly
01/19/2007 | Requests *Summary
States are increasingly interested in the individual budget model for older Medicaid beneficiaries as a mechanism to improve responsiveness of benefits to beneficiaries’ needs and preferences and to increase their ability to remain outside or leave nursing homes. This report describes 10 operating individual budget model programs that serve older persons and identifies four areas of program design that are of particular importance to the success of the individual budget model.
Author
Spillman, Brenda C.; Black, Kirsten J.; Ormond, Barbara A.
Available Files
- Report PDF (1,103K, 73 pages)
Keywords
Cash and Counseling; Individual Budget Programs; Level and Adequacy of Benefits; Participant Support Systems;
Topic
Consumer/Participant Direction
Type/Tool
Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers
Source
Kaiser Family Foundation
State
Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Wisconsin
Date Created
04/05/2007
Contact
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
kcmu@kff.org
202-347-5270
kcmu@kff.org
202-347-5270
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* Reflects requests since January 1, 2007
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