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Estimating the Expense of a Mandatory Home- and Community-Based Personal Assistance Services Benefit Under Medicaid
12/08/2007 | Requests *Summary
Three researchers use data from the Survey of Income and Program
Participation to estimate the expense of a mandatory personal assistance services (PAS) benefit under Medicaid for persons with low incomes, low assets, and significant disability. They conclude that the cost would be much lower than estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. They also argue that this step would help eliminate the institutional bias of Medicaid.
Author
LaPlante, Mitchell P.; Kaye, H. Stephen; Harrington, Charlene
Available Files
- Report PDF (22 pages)
Keywords
Personal Assistant; Medicaid; Independent Living; Expenditures; Community Inclusion; MiCASSA; Survey of Income and Program Participation; Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Supports Act; PCS; SIPP;
Topic
Financing HCBS, Olmstead, Sustainability, Workforce/Direct Care
Type/Tool
Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers, Reports
Source
Journal of Aging and Social Policy
State
All States/Territories
Date Created
06/08/2009
Contact
Mitchell LaPlante
Associate Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging
University of California San Francisco
mitch.laplante@ucsf.edu
Associate Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging
University of California San Francisco
mitch.laplante@ucsf.edu
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