The Medicaid program is a major payer for long-term services and supports (LTSS) in the United States, accounting for 40 percent of total spending for long-term services and supports. This brief highlights two important aspects of operations in states that affect access to LTSS in the community: efforts to provide accurate and timely information to consumers, and procedures to make Medicaid eligibility determinations quickly and efficiently. 

 

Independent Living; Medicaid; Community-based Care; State Balancing Incentive Payments Program; SSI; SSDI 

Accessibility, Affordable Care Act (ACA), Consumer/Participant Direction, Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities, Money Follows the Person, Physical Disabilities, Single Point of Entry/No Wrong Door, Waiver 

Data, Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers 

Kaiser Family Foundation 

All States/Territories 

04/08/2011 

Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

kcmu@kff.org
202-347-5270