As states make home- and community-based services (HCBS) more accessible, researchers have become more interested in understanding service use and spending, but analyzing HCBS at the national level can be challenging. With the development of the HCBS taxonomy—a uniform classification...

This article summarizes the availability, completeness, quality, and usability of the encounter data in the MAX file, derived from CMS’s Medicaid Statistical Information System, for enrollees in comprehensive managed care plans. It also gives specific information by state. Most states...

This study used unduplicated Medicaid enrollment records from 2005 to 2007 to examine enrollees' migration across states. Over the study period, only 3.7 percent moved to another state at least once. This provides a benchmark for adjusting national Medicaid statistics to reduce over-counting....

This report examines how five states have structured the interface between Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration grants and Managed Long-Term Services and Support (MLTSS) programs to promote transitions from institutional care to home- and community-based settings. It describes how...

This report summarizes findings from a case study of New Jersey’s ELE processes, conducted in January 2013. The state currently operates two separate ELE processes, which are approved for enrollment purposes only, in both Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP):...

This report, prepared for CMS, is part of a series of annual reports on participation in the Medicaid Buy-In program. It provides updates on both national- and state-level trends in enrollment, employment, and earnings among the 38 reporting Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) states with a...

This working paper compares teacher evaluation scores from a typical value-added model with results from the Colorado Growth Model (CGM) and finds that use of the CGM in place of a value-added model depresses the evaluation scores for teachers with more English language learner students and...