Medicaid
CMS Issues Final Rule to Empower Medicaid Beneficiaries to Direct Personal Assistance Services
A final rule that would allow more Medicaid beneficiaries to be in charge of their own personal assistance services, including personal care services, instead of having those services directed by an agency, has been issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The final rule becomes effective November 3, 2008.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicaid Information
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services News
Children with Severe Chronic Conditions on Medicaid
Provides analysis of Medicaid expenditures for children receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits.
Citizenship Guidelines for Medicaid Eligibility
Consumer-Directed Models of Personal Care: Lessons from Medicaid
Compares and contrasts alternative approaches to administering programs, financed under the Medicaid personal care services optional benefit, that make attendant services available to low-income elderly and disabled persons in need of help with daily living tasks.
Coordination of Care for Persons with Disabilities Enrolled in Medicaid Managed Care
Presents a conceptual framework to guide the development of measures of care coordination that would be both feasible to apply and meaningful in assessing the performance of Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) that enroll people with disabilities.
Early & Periodic Screening & Diagnostic Treatment Benefit (EPSDT)
Early & Periodic Screening, Diagnosis & Treatment (EPSDT) Program Information
Medicaid: Elimination of Reimbursement for Transportation
Final Report of the Medicaid Commission
In May 2005 the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Michael O. Leavitt, established a Medicaid Commission to advise the Secretary on ways to modernize the Medicaid program so that it can provide high-quality health care to its beneficiaries in a financially sustainable way. On December 29, 2006 the Commission issued its final report.
Frequently Asked Questions about Medicaid & Medicare
Answers to commonly-asked questions from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
How Does Work Affect My Medicare and/or Medicaid?
List of Regional and State Medicare and Medicaid Offices
Longitudinal Analysis of High Cost Medicaid Children in California
Analyzes the Medicaid experience of children in California who had at least $25,000 in claims in 1983.
Medicaid Information on Real Choice Grant Program
Information on the Real Choice grant program under Medicaid, which is designed to help states and others build an infrastructure that will result in improvements in services and long-term support systems that enable individuals of all ages to live in a community setting suited to their needs, to have meaningful choices about their living arrangements and to exercise more control over the services they receive.
Medicaid Information on State Waiver & Demonstration Programs
Information on Medicaid waiver programs and demonstrations that impact the elderly and people with disabilities.
Medicaid Part II: Prior Approval of Assistive Technology, Fair Hearings & Court Appeals
Medicaid for People with Cognitive Disabilities
Medicaid, Assistive Technology & the Courts
National Center for Benefits Outreach & Enrollment
National Direct Service Workforce (DSW) Resource Center
Guides developed by the Kaiser Family Foundation explain the role of Medicare and Medicaid for the roughly 20 million children, adults and seniors with disabilities.
Social Security Administration's Medicaid Information
State Medicaid Plan Search Engine
Understanding Medicaid Home & Community Services: A Primer
Designed to encourage use of the Medicaid program in a manner that minimizes reliance on institutions and maximizes community integration in a cost-effective manner.
What Will Happen to My Medicaid When I Go to Work?
Fact sheet provides information on Continued Medicaid Eligibility - Section 1619 (b). This incentive continues Medicaid coverage for most working SSI beneficiaries even after earnings become too high to allow a cash benefit. Document is in Word format, but is also available in text.
What is the Difference Between Medicare & Medicaid?