Despite a shift from institutional services toward more home and community-based services
(HCBS) for older adults who need long-term services and supports (LTSS), the effects of …

Using a substantial change in Medicare reimbursement policy to study the market for home
health care, I find that the introduction of tightly binding average per-patient reimbursement …

1.1 The Office for Disability Issues (ODI) commissioned SQW Limited (SQW) to identify and
review the costs and benefits of Independent Living (IL) for disabled people. The purpose of …

Because of the active role assumed by the courts in Medicaid nursing facility reimbursement,
and because that role changed over time, federal intervention in this area provides a useful …

This state update is a product of Assessing the New Federalism, a multiyear project to
monitor and assess the devolution of social programs from the federal to the state and local …

This study examines the extent to which children enjoy regular contact and financial support
from their noncustodial parents. It also looks at the extent to which children who have a …

This dissertation sought to explain why states choose the Medicaid nursing facility
reimbursement policies that they do. Supplementing traditional political and economic …

Background As a United States Senator from 1978 to 1995 I was privileged to serve for 16
years as a member of the Senate Finance Committee and, for two years in 1989–90, as a …

In early 2003, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services, faced with a $450 million Medicaid
shortfall, implemented several cost-cutting measures to the Medicaid program. The most …

AARP Tennessee commissioned a study examining the status of the long-term care (LTC)
system in Tennessee, analyzing “best practices” from other states' LTC systems and …