To better understand the population of Medicaid enrollees living in nursing homes or intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICFs/IID), researchers analyzed data from the Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) from 2006 and 2007 to determine the characteristics of...

There is increasing interest in the potential of health information technology (HIT) to improve quality of care, prevent medical errors, and increase administrative efficiencies in the nursing home setting. The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics of nursing homes that were...

For calendar year 2010, 28 states spent almost $23.6 billion on HCBS, with 80 percent of expenditures categorized as round-the-clock, home-based, and day services. Other services, such as case management, or equipment, modifications, and technology were widely used, but are not particularly...

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...

To address the unmet need for employment-related health care services among persons with disabilities, an alternative and potentially viable policy solution is the development of a new type of subsidized coverage to ‘wrap-around’ the new ACA coverage or other private and public...

Discusses implementation, structure, and operations of WtW grant-funded programs in 11 study sites as they existed in mid-2000. Finds that the grant program has encouraged the development of innovative strategies at the community level, that local programs use a wide variety of tactics to...

This issue brief focuses on the role of partners and spouses in the decision-making processes of social service clients. Using survey data, direct observation of couple interactions, and physiological measurement, findings suggest that the decisions of individuals receiving public...