This report for the New York State Health Foundation provides recommendations for New York State as it works to improve the coordination and integration of care dual eligibles receive through Medicare and Medicaid. Key recommendations include using the federal dual eligible demonstration to...

Over 1.2 million seriously disabled Americans under age 65—including as many as 400,000 without health insurance—are currently in the two-year waiting period for Medicare coverage, according to this new report. Eliminating this waiting period would provide stable health insurance...

Over 1.2 million seriously disabled Americans under age 65—including as many as 400,000 without health insurance—are currently in the two-year waiting period for Medicare coverage, according to this new report. Eliminating this waiting period would provide stable health insurance...

Estimates that Medicaid prescription drug coverage for approximately 6 million "dual eligibles"—low-income seniors and people with disabilities who are covered by both Medicaid and Medicare—accounts for nearly half of all Medicaid spending on prescription drugs, including both...

The new Medicare Part D benefit, which began on January 1, 2006, expanded Medicare to include prescription drugs, and it required beneficiaries to change how they interact with the program. Past experience with low enrollment in a variety of programs designed to aid low-income Medicare...

This technical assistance brief, prepared for the Integrated Care Resource Center, provides basic information for states participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ capitated Financial Alignment Demonstration covering Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. Although not a...